Envirionment III

9:15 Brominated Flame Retardants in European Food Samples Collected in 2007 to 2009
Olaf A.B. Paepke, Matthias Opel, Frank Neugebauer, Peter Ebsen, Malte Petersen [90157]

9:30 Integrated Multi-Media Monitoring of PBDEs in the Canadian Environment: Current Status and Trends
Sean M Backus, Pamela Martin, Megan Lewis, Cathy Banic, Doug Spry, Chris Marvin, Magella Pelletier, Shirley Anne Smyth, Alicia Berthiaume, Susan Fraser, Jesse Shen, Jessica Harris [90156]

9:45 The Atmospheric Concentrations of Brominated Flame Retardants at Extreme Remote Locations: The Canadian High Arctic and the Tibetan Plateau
Hang Xiao, Hayley Hung, Li Shen, Frank Wania, Ed Sverko, Yushan Su, Ying-Duan Lei, Eric Reiner, Shichang Kang, Enzo Barresi [90067]

10:00 Brominated Flame Retardants in the Arctic Environment - Trends and New Candidates
Cynthia A. de Wit, Dorte Herzke, Katrin Vorkamp [90007]

10:15 BFRs in Arctic marine mammals during three decades. Not only a story of BDEs
Bert van Bavel, Anna Rotander, Gunilla Lindstrom, Maria Dam, Anuschka Polder, Frank Riget, Atli Audunsson Gudjon [90146]

10:30 Reductive debromination of nonabrominated diphenyl ethers
Lisa M Granelli, Ake Bergman, Johan Eriksson, Maria Athanasiadou [90042]

10:45 Coffee Break

Alternatives

11:15 Recent Studies on the Identification and Occurrence of PentaBDE Replacement Chemicals in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Susan Klosterhaus, Heather M Stapleton, Mark La Guardia, Elizabeth Davis, Sarah Eagle, Arlene Blum [90060]

11:30 New Flame Retardants in the Global Atmosphere under the GAPS Network
Sum Chi Lee, Ed Sverko, Tom Harner, JoAnne Schachtschneider, Donna Zaruk, Maryl DeJong, Enzo Barresi [90066]

11:45 Brominated and Chlorinated Norbornene Flame Retardants in Tributary Sediments of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Li Shen, Eric J Reiner, Karen A MacPherson, Terry M Kolic, Debbie A Burniston, Paul A Helm, Lisa A Richman, Brad Hill, Ian D Brindle, Chris H Marvin [90079]

12:00 Tris (1,3-dichloro-isopropyl) phosphate, a PentaBDE Replacement: Detection in Consumer Products, Human Metabolism, and Neurodevelopmental Effects
Heather M Stapleton, Ellen Cooper, Laura Dishaw, Frederic Seidler, Theodore Slotkin, Thomas F Webster [90033]

12:15 Life Cycle and Risk Assessment of Environment-Compatible Flame Retardants (Prototypical Case Study): ENFIRO
Pim Leonards, Sicco Brandsma, Jacob de Boer [90036]

12:30 "Novel" Brominated Flame Retardants: a Review
Robin J Law, Adrian Covaci, Stuart Harrad, Dorte Herzke, Nadeem Ali, Mohamed A.-E. Abdallah [90024]

12:45 - 14:15  Lunch

Sources, Control & Regulation

14:15 Brominated flame retardants in products: Results of the Swiss market survey 2008
Eva Bantelmann, Albert Ammann, Urs Naef, Josef Tremp [90004]

14:30 The Releases of PBDD/DFs from the Flame-retarded Textile Manufacturing Facilities
Shizuko Ota, Yoshiyuki Kondo, Tohru Miyazaki, Hidetaka Takigami, Yasuhiro Hirai, Shin-ichi Sakai [90142]

14:45 Photodegradation of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Organic Solvents and Surfactant Solution
Gang Yu, Jun Huang, Lei Fang, Xue Li, Shu B. Deng [90144]

15:00 Measurement of vapor pressures of some PBDEs and HBCD diastereoisomers
Hidetoshi Kuramochi, Shin-ichi Sakai [90071]

15:15 Halogenated Flame Retardants in Consumer Products: Do the Fire Safety Benefits Justify the Health and Environmental Risks?
Arlene Blum, Linda Birnbaum [90058]

15:30 Canceled

15:45 New POPs - The unique challenge of controlling PBDEs under the Stockholm Convention
Roland Weber, Alan Watson, Tom Webster [90149]

16:00 Wrap-up Session

16:45 Closing Session