Spending about one hundred hours each month in the air, flight attendants are bombarded with pesticides, radiation, ozone, and any illnesses passengers carry on board. Now, new research shows that they also fly along with some of the highest levels ever measured for some flame retardants.
All nineteen commercial airliners in a new study had several flame retardants in their dust. And one chemical was measured at concentrations more than one hundred times higher in the airplane dust than in dust collected from homes and offices.
