Laptop Battery High levels of flame retardant chemicals called PBDEs turned up in samples of breast milk from nine Puget Sound women who participated in a new study by the nonprofit Northwest Environment Watch.
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Thinkpad ``This is a real health concern,'' said organization research director Clark Williams-Derry. ``Studies on laboratory animals suggest that PBDEs'' -- polybrominated diphenyl ethers -- ``may impair memory, learning and have other harmful effects on development.''
He hopes such obstacles will be overcome by summer, and that other companies will develop flame retardants with no brominated compounds. Scientific studies in Europe showed in 1998 that PBDEs were building up in breast milk. Bush said the chemical company acted too slowly to test the chemicals and phase them out, and failed to warn U.S. manufacturers. "Great Lakes could have been better prepared by pushing toxicity and similar studies years ago, " Bush said.
Microsoft A report on the study stressed that woman should continue breast-feeding despite these concerns, however, citing benefits such as reduced risk of illness for infants. A news release quoted Dr. MaryAnn O'Hara of Seattle, a breast-feeding expert, as urging ``swift action to get PBDEs, mercury and other toxins out of the environment and out of our bodies.''
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Laptop Computers California last summer became the first state to ban two forms of the fire retardant compound. The European Union has also banned a third form of the chemical, which isn't as readily absorbed by the body.
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Laptop Computer A series of studies last year showed American women have the world's highest levels of the bromine-based fire retardants, nearing levels that have been shown to damage learning, memory and behavior in laboratory mice.
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Desktop Computer The median PBDE concentration found in the Puget Sound breast-milk study was 50 parts per billion, with individual levels ranging from 13 to 156 parts per billion. That compares with a median 1.3 parts per billion found in Japanese blood samples in 2000, and a median 2.1 parts per billion found in Swedish breast milk in 2001.
Notebooks Washington state is already mobilizing to address concerns about the chemicals, which are found in furniture foams, textiles and consumer electronics.
Lenovo PBDEs have been used in U.S. plastics for about 30 years. Use of the compounds increased in the 1980s with increased use of flammable plastics in products and tougher fire safety standards.
Hard Drive ``That's really when computers started taking off,'' said spokeswoman Sheryl Hutchinson with the state Department of Ecology in Olympia. ``It's all around you. It's really hard to get away from this stuff.''
Travelstar In January, Gov. Gary Locke directed Ecology to develop an action plan for addressing PBDEs. He provided $50,000 and asked the Legislature for an additional $83,000.
Gateway Whether the effort proceeds ``is dependent on getting more funds out of the Legislature this session,'' Hutchinson said.
Laptop Parts The money is part of a $436,000 operating budget proposal from the governor for phasing out persistent toxins such as PBDEs, mercury, dioxins and PCBS, which don't readily break down in the environment and can move into the food chain. The Legislature eliminated funding for the program last year.
Software Both chambers of the Legislature released their proposed budgets Monday. The House measure would fund the $436,000 program. The Senate plans contains only $159,000 for mercury reduction and recycling but none for PBDEs or the overall program, said Laurie Valeriano of the Washington Toxics Coalition.
Hard Drives One question Ecology will look into is how PBDEs get into the environment and living things, Hutchinson said. ``It's largely conjecture at this point.''
Electronics But generally, PBDEs don't bind with the plastics in products and are ``leaching out constantly. ... They could be breathed, they could be ingested in food products,'' she said.
Canon The department will look into how much of the compound is ``simply leaching from products and how much is from products just breaking down,'' information that will ``give us a better sense of how to proceed,'' Hutchinson said.
Desktop Pc The compound is saving lives as a fire retardant, Hutchinson said, noting the agency will be talking to firefighters who are aware of that but also ``are breathing it.''
Desktop Computers Industry is already looking into alternatives that will be as effective at curbing fire without the health risk. Ikea has eliminated PBDEs from its products, and ``Intel no longer uses it in computer parts it makes,'' Hutchinson noted.
Think Pad Williams-Derry suggested design changes, such as switching to plastics that aren't so combustible.
Repair Some scientists believe flame retardants may become as ubiquitous in the marine environment as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a hazardous compound once widely used in industrial coolants and lubricants that has been banned in the United States since the 1970s.
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Cisco On the Net:
Keyboard Northwest Environment Watch, www.northwestwatch.org
Monitor Environment California: http://www.environmentcalifornia.org,
Desktop Bromine Science and Environmental Forum: http://www.bsef.org
Infosys Associated Press - 2/24/2004
Topic: Toxics
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