Flame Retardant Dilemma: 11 February, 2011

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Date & Time: 
Friday, February 11, 2011 - 08:30 - 16:00

Speakers:
Arlene Blum, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Flame Retardants in Consumer Products: Do the Benefits Justify the Hazard?

Ami Zota, Sc.D., M.S., Postdoctoral Scholar, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF
Halogenated Flame Retardants: Human Exposure and Epidemiology

Peter Brigham, Founding Director, Federation of Burn Foundations
The Burn Community and Fire Retardant Chemicals

Sue Chiang, MPH, MPP, Pollution Prevention Program Director, Center for Environmental Health
Environmental Health, Flame Retardants and the Development of National Standards for Electronic Products Under EPEAT

Michael Kirschner, Design Chain Associates
Status of the California Green Chemistry Safer Consumer Product Alternatives Regulation