Brominated Flame Retardants

In: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Ser. v.16

Abstract

Intro -- Brominated Flame Retardants -- The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Also Available Electronically -- Aims and Scope -- Series Preface -- Volume Preface -- Contents -- Introduction to Brominated Flame Retardants: Commercially Products, Applications, and Physicochemical Properties -- Human Health Effects of Brominated Flame Retardants -- Sample Preparation and Chromatographic Methods Applied to Congener-Specific Analysis of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers -- Recent Methodologies for Brominated Flame Retardant Determinations by Means of Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry -- Current Levels and Trends of Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment -- Bioaccumulation of Brominated Flame Retardants -- Degradation of Brominated Flame Retardants -- Human Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardants -- Emerging Brominated Flame Retardants in the Environment -- Index.