Potentially Toxic Flame Retardants Highest In California Households

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081006170710.htm

ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2008) — In what may be an unintended consequence of efforts to make furniture safer and less flammable, residents of California have blood levels of potentially toxic flame retardants called PBDEs at levels nearly twice the national average, scientists from Massachusetts and California are reporting.