Satellite Event - Alternative Flame Retardants: Analysis, Ocurrence and Exposure
Convener: Dr. Ethel Eljarrat, IDAEA-CSIC, Spain; Dr. Eva Brorström-Lundén, IVL Swedish Environment Research Institute, Sweden.
This Workshop will focus on Alternative Flame Retardants (FRs), including halogenated and organophosphate FRs, representing 30% and 20% by volume of the global FR production, respectively. Among the different Alternative FRs in use, several of them are high production volume chemicals. However, there is a general lack of information about their environmental fate and exposure. Such knowledge is important in determining which Alternative FRs may pose an unacceptable risk to health and the environment. The main objective of this Workshop is to compiles the existing knowledge regarding the environmental impact of Alternative Flame Retardants. For this purpose, available data on analytical methodologies, environmental occurrence, bioavailability and bioaccumulation processes, human exposure and toxicity, will be presented.
Workshop agenda
Date: 25 June 2013 (Half day) - Preliminary Program
Opening of Workshop Registration: 09:00 - 13:15.
Welcome and Presentation of the Workshop: 13:15 - 13:30.
Conveners: Ethel Eljarrat and Eva Brorström-Lundén.
Topic i) Introduction to flame retardants and their properties.
Talk 1 (13:30 - 14:00): Ake Bergman.
Talk 2 (14:00 - 14:30): Martin Scheringer.
Topic ii) Analytical Strategies.
Talk 3 (14:30 - 15:00): Lourdes Ramos.
Coffef-Break: 15:00 - 15:30.
Topic iii) Environmental ocurrence and biota levels.
Talk 4 (15:30 - 16:00): Eva Brorström-Lundén and Peter Haglund.
Talk 5 (16:00 - 16:30): Enrique Barón.
Topic iv) Human exposure and toxicity.
Talk 6 (16:30 - 17:00): Adrian Covaci.
Indoor exposure of humans to organophosphate flame retardants.
Talk 7 (17:00 - 17:30): Cayo Corcellas.
End of Workshop: 17:30.