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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">May 18, 2011 </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=5>Toxic Substances: Infants may be exposed to high levels of a toxic fire retardant</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">The first investigation of halogenated fire retardants in baby products has revealed that infants are exposed to multiple retardants, including one at levels higher than deemed acceptable by a federal consumer protection agency (</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I>Environ. Sci. Technol.</I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, DOI:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/cen/trustedproxy.cgi?redirect=http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es2007462"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">10.1021/es2007462</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">).</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">Little information has been available about the identity or concentration of fire retardants that manufacturers add to baby products to prevent or slow burning. Inspired by her first pregnancy, in 2009,</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://fds.duke.edu/db/Nicholas/esp/faculty/stapleto"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Heather Stapleton</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> of</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> led a team that tested baby products for the presence of the retardants. They chose to examine products that contain polyurethane foam because they knew that manufacturers often add relatively high concentrations of flame retardants to foams. These chemicals can also escape readily from foams.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">Stapleton and her team collected baby products samples from volunteers in 13 states. The researchers found fire retardants in the foam of 80 of the 101 products they tested, including car seats, changing table pads, sleep positioners, mattresses, and nursing pillows. Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry data suggested that some of the flame retardants may have decomposed during the analysis, so the researchers confirmed their findings with high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with high resolution mass spectrometry.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">They found</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=13674-87-8&Units=SI"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">tris (1,3-dichloroisopropyl) phosphate (TDCPP)</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> the most often, in 36% of the products. TDCPP is a retardant that children's pajama makers discontinued using in the 1970's due to concerns about mutagenicity (</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I>Science</I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, DOI:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.347576"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">10.1126/science.347576</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">). Recent tests suggest that TDCPP may also have neurotoxic properties (</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I>Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol.</I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, DOI:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.taap.2011.01.005"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">10.1016/j.taap.2011.01.005</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">). The researchers found the retardant at levels of up to 12% by weight of foam.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">Stapleton's team estimated that infants' exposure to TDCPP may exceed the</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.cpsc.gov/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Consumer Product Safety Commission</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">'s acceptable daily intake levels. In a written statement, the consumer agency commented that TDCPP "may pose a significant health risk to consumers."</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">The researchers also detected milligram per gram of foam levels of eight other flame retardant chemicals, including the compounds associated with the fire retardant mixtures known as</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.pu2pu.com/htdocs/customers/greatlakes/firemaster.htm"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Firemaster 550</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> flame and</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/cen/trustedproxy.cgi?redirect=http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es060630m"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">PentaBDE</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, the latter of which the</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://chm.pops.int/Implementation/NewPOPs/The9newPOPs/tabid/672/language/en-US/Default.aspx"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> banned in 2009. Recent research has linked children's exposure to some PentaBDE compounds to neurodevelopmental impairments (</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I>Environ. Health Perspect.,</I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> DOI:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.0901340"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">10.1289/ehp.0901340</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> and DOI:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.0901015"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">10.1289/ehp.0901015</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">) and other health effects (</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I>Epidemiology</I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, DOI:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2009/11001/Maternal_PBDE_Exposure_and_Time_to_Pregnancy.242.aspx"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">10.1097/01.ede.0000362982.21438.3d</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">).</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">Stapleton and her colleagues also identified two organophosphate flame retardants, one of which,</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol71/mono71-114.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">tris (2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP)</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, is a compound some research suggests could be carcinogenic.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=adrian.covaci"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Adrian Covaci</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> of the</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*TOXICO"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">University of Antwerp's Toxicological Center</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> suggests that babies may be exposed mainly via inhalation to the chemicals reported in the paper. As a result, babies would have proportionately greater exposure to the more volatile compounds, including TDCPP and TCEP, than to heavier brominated compounds.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">In a written statement, the American Chemistry Council comments, "This study attempts to examine the existence of certain flame retardants in a small sampling of children's products; it does not address exposure or risk."</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">But Stapleton's results concern</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/od/director/index.cfm"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Linda Birnbaum</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, director of the</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, because infants are particularly vulnerable to chemical exposure and because babies spend much of their time next to foam products. Of the retardants in the tested products, only PentaBDE is known to impact people. But some of the others cause health problems in animals, she says.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">To co-author</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://sph.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_sphdir&id=239&Itemid=340&INDEX=701"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Tom Webster</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> of</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://sph.bu.edu/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">Boston University's School of Public Health</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">, the paper's findings highlight the U.S. government's reliance on academic scientists to discover toxic chemicals in consumer products and to work out the resulting health risks. The process is not swift, he says. As a result, consumers of all ages can be exposed to substances that may harm their health, he laments.</SPAN></P>
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