A new study showing how “safer” industrial chemicals don’t always stay that way🧪
Once in the environment, flame retardants can break down into more toxic compounds!
These will accumulate in sediments, posing long-term risks. #ForeverChemicals don’t just persist—they transform.
#envsci #pollution
Once in the environment, flame retardants can break down into more toxic compounds!
These will accumulate in sediments, posing long-term risks. #ForeverChemicals don’t just persist—they transform.
#envsci #pollution
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Nature Sustainability
Polymeric flame retardants are deemed safer for industrial use than the phased out monomeric halogenated ones, but their impact once in the environment is unknown. Results now show that when they break down in the environment, two such chemicals become more toxic.
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