EHP Science Seletion out today: "Regrettable Substitution? Organophosphate Flame Retardants and Macrophage Activity"
My latest news story for Environmental Health Perspectives again addresses the health effects of common flame retardants. This story, and an earlier one that I wrote on May, inspired a long-form feature on flame retardants that I'm working on now. It should be published early next year. In the meantime, you can learn more about how a real-world mixture of 13 organophosphate flame retardants, once thought to be safe, affected the function and behavior of critical human immune cells called macrophages in a new study out of McGill University in Montreal.