Brominated Flame Retardants (PBDE and PBB) in Sludge – a Problem?
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Preface In the autumn of 1999, the presence of brominated flame retardants in sewage sludge aroused medial attention in Sweden. As a result of this, LRF (The farmers organisation) recommended their members to renounce receiving and using sludge as a fertilizer. According to preliminary risk evaluations made at the same time, no obvious risk could be detected. VAV took the initiative to do a further risk analysis. These findings are documented in this report. Karin Book from VAV assisted in the literature survey. National Substances Inspectory, Sweden, has kindly contributed by giving access to a preliminary EU-report on risk evaluations of deca-, octa and pentaBDE.
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