Exposure to flame retardants is causing US kids to lose millions of IQ points. They’re more damaging than lead or mercury.

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The chemicals we’ve long feared the most — heavy metals like lead and mercury — are less of a threat to kids’ developing brains than they were two decades ago. But two new menaces may be taking their place: pesticides and flame retardants. According to new research from New York University, flame retardants resulted in a loss of 162 million IQ points among children in the US between 2001 and 2016. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, looked at the four chemicals known to impact the brain of a developing child most: lead, mercury, pesticides, …read more

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