Common fire retardant harmful to aquatic life

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Environmental health researchers found that zebra fish exposed to several different technical mixtures of polybrominated diphenyl ethers -- a common fire retardant -- during early development can have developmental malformations, changes in behavior and death.

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