Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants

Bienkowski, Brian
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/aug/wingedwarnings5flame-retardants
Date Written:  2014-09-02
Publisher:  Environmental Health News
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16963

Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.

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