Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is ...

A higher-than-normal level of fire retardant chemicals associated with cancer and other adverse health threats have been found in Maui firefighters who battled the 2023 Lahaina wildfire. According to ...

TUESDAY, March 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Firefighters might face a higher risk of brain cancers caused by exposure to chemicals in fire extinguishers ... exposure to such chemical agents ...

The team focused on polymeric brominated flame retardants ... of the world to provide sufficient scientific data to support chemical management and regulations. The study shows that “big ...

Rising Demand in the Plastics and Rubber Industry: With the rapid expansion of the plastics sector, alumina trihydrate has ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a nontoxic one-step flame-retardant cotton coating process that can be ...

The chemical producers and their trade groups promote polyBFRs as environmentally friendly and non-hazardous substitutes for banned monomeric flame retardants (e.g., hexabromocyclododecane and ...

Las Vegas — Materials maker Avient Corp. has developed a flame-retardant (FR) composite sandwich panel for modular ...

Firefighters might face a higher risk of brain cancers caused by exposure to chemicals in fire extinguishers ... "As firefighters have exposure to such chemical agents, we examined mutational ...

Veteran firefighters appear to have a higher risk of brain tumors called gliomas, which can be caused by gene mutations linked to flame retardant ... exposure to such chemical agents, we examined ...