Flame Retardant Chemicals and Southern Resident Orca Whales

You are probably aware that the chemicals in flameretardant have been identified.
Here is the first sentences in an abstract I recenty found by Peter Ross:

Long-lived and high trophic level marine mammals are vulnerable to accumulating often very high concentrations of persistent chemicals, including pesticides, industrial by-products, and flame retardants. In the case of killer whales (Orcinus orca), some of the older individuals currently frequenting the coastal waters of British Columbia (BC) were born during the First World War, well before the advent of widespread chemical manufacture and use. BC’s killer
whales are now among the most polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated marine mammals in the world.


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