"The issue that is motivating this case is that the EPA has a legal duty to develop rules, under a law called the Toxic Substances Control Act, that will reduce all exposure to decaBDE for people and wildlife to the greatest extent practicable," says Katherine O'Brien, a senior attorney in Earthjustice's toxic exposure and health program and the lead attorney on this specific case.
"What we might think of as a small exposure from, you know, cooking with a black plastic spatula, if you're cooking with that spatula every day for years . . . and there's also a little bit of decaBDE coming out of your computer monitor, once that chemical is in your body, you're not going to be able to expel it quickly," she says.
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