http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/female-fertility-chemicals-gym-mats-furniture-threat-warning-study-flame-retardant-a7911091.html
Citando:
"Researchers in the US found more than 80 per cent of women having fertility treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital had traces of three types of chemicals known as PFRs in their urine.
And those with high levels of the chemicals were 38 per cent less likely to have a child after a cycle of IVF treatment than those with low levels."
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"PFRs were introduced as flame retardants as a supposedly safer alternative to PentaBDE after evidence of its adverse health effects.
However concern has been growing about PFRs – organophosphate flame retardants – which are used in polyurethane foam in upholstered furniture, baby products and gym mats, for example. They can spread from furniture into the air and dust of rooms."
