



Thyroid Hormone
Not needed and highly toxic











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RE: One-sided
By PedroDaGr8 on 10/31/2008 11:25:49 AM , Rating: 2
Sorry, I thought the same thing at first, but if you look at the hyperlink in the beginning of the article. Zota et al. (1) shows that Californians have drastically higher levels of flame-retardants in their homes than others (for example Cape Cod). By the way, this article, the Zota one, is in an ACS (American Chemical Society) journal which means that it is considered a reputable journal by chemists. I feel the DT article could have made this more clear, but what ever. The polychlrinated biphenyl's are worse than the PDBE's if you ask me. Ph-Br bonds are typically weaker than Ph-Cl bonds and the fact it is an ether means that there are methods of turning it into a phenol as opposed to biphenyls where you are breaking a C-C bond, not nearly as easy as breaking a carbon heteroatom bond.

1)Zota, A. R.; Rudel, R. A.; Morello-Frosch, R. A.; Brody , J. G. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008 , 42 (21), 8158-8164 (website: )

If you have a university IP or live on a university, more than likely your school has an ACS subscription so you should be able to read this article.

