by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
The large EU-funded population study has published conclusions of analysis of ten halogenated FRs in blood and four organo-phosphate metabolites in urine from 2136 children from nine European countries. Median levels of BDE-47 of c. 0.3 ng/g-lipid were found in...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
A population study of 260 children with pre-school ADHD was compared to a stratified control group of 549, with data of organophosphate metabolites in mother’s urine at 17 weeks pregnancy. Statistically positive significant correlation was found between levels of DnBP...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
Lab incubation trials (in the dark) used coastal sediment and sea water collected from the Mediterranean (near the outlet of Marseille’s sewage works) spiked with seven organo-phosphorus esters (list below) to c. 180 ng/g.dw for each of the OPEs. Ambient levels of the...
by pinfa-editor | 8 Mar, 2023
A paper from China presents data on eight nitrogen compounds in human urine (301 samples from 13 Chinese cities): cyanuric acid, melamine, ammelide, ammeline, benzoguanamine, 2,4,6-trimethoxy-1,3,5-triazine, 2,4-diamino-6-(4-methylphenyl) – 1,3,5-triazine,...
by pinfa-editor | 30 Jan, 2023
pinfa North America launches series of free webinars on fire and flame retardants, starting Wed 22 Feb. 11h30-12h30 EST (17h30-18h30 CET). The first webinar will feature Dr. James Zhou, Avient Corporation, on behaviour of polymeric materials in fire and relevant fire...
