PBDE Manufacturers to Public: Stay Calm, We're Looking Into It

ABC News reports that investigators have now measured PBDE's in breast milk from a sample of American women at levels orders of magnitude higher than in other countries where the substance is banned. Mothers should go on breastfeeding, experts say, because the benefits outweigh the risks. Yet alarm in the public health community seems to be growing.

Not to worry, though. Industry spokesmen say they're hard at work on the problem. "As an industry group and as a company we are working with just about any and every scientific group that is doing long-term studies on the safety of these products," says a representative of manufacturer Albemarle Corporation.

That wouldn't be surprising.