Historic scientific consensus on harm from flame retardants

The San Antonio Statement on Brominated and Chlorinated Flame Retardants, a historic consensus statement documenting the harm and lack of fire safety benefit of these widespread pollutants, has been signed by 145 scientists from 22 countries at the end of October. It is published on-line by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). See here An accompanying editorial by Linda Birnbaum and Ake Bergman is here

Additional signatures to this consensus document are welcome. If you are a scientist or a physician, and wish to sign, please fill out a web form here

Alternatively you can send your Name, Academic degree, Present position, Organization, City, Country, and Email address to SanAntonioStatement@gmail.com.

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Authors are:

 Joseph DiGangi, International POPs Elimination Network, USA

 Arlene Blum, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, USA, Green Science Policy Institute, USA

 Åke Bergman, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden

 Cynthia A. de Wit, Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University, Sweden

 Donald Lucas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

 David Mortimer, Food Standards Agency, London, United Kingdom

 Arnold Schecter, University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas, Texas, USA;

 Martin Scheringer, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

 Susan D. Shaw, Marine Environmental Research Institute, Center for Marine Studies, USA

 Thomas F. Webster, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, USA