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Letter: For the record

Published 26 June 2004

• In our story on deca-BDE flame retardants turning up in the Arctic (12 June, p 10), we mistakenly stated that a survey by WWF said “there was evidence that the chemical caused brain damage in young children”. WWF has asked us to point out that its report does not claim there is any evidence in humans for this.

Issue no. 2453 published 26 June 2004

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