Study Finds Common Fire Retardant Harmful to Aquatic Life
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
A new study by Baylor University environmental health researchers found that zebra fish exposed to several different technical mixtures of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) - a common fire retardant - during early development can cause developmental malformations, changes in behavior and death.