Fire retardant itself is much more harmful than heavy metals in this context.
It essentially causes neurodegenerative diseases, especially if you inhale it.
This applies to unintuitive routes of exposure, like taking a hot shower on an Air Force base that used flame retardant in fire drills decades prior and breathing in the water suspended in air.
Why do they always have to baby firefighters? "don't eat the red powder"
Like they were going to!
Appeals to vague cliches only waste the readers' time and distract from the core message.
It leaves the reading wondering if this is just fanning the flame of outrage at faceless corporations. Is that what you want your readers wasting their mental energy on? Was that the intent of the people who trecked out to retrieve the powder, bring it back to a lab and analyze it?
Fire retardant itself is much more harmful than heavy metals in this context.
It essentially causes neurodegenerative diseases, especially if you inhale it.
This applies to unintuitive routes of exposure, like taking a hot shower on an Air Force base that used flame retardant in fire drills decades prior and breathing in the water suspended in air.
It's ammonia phosphates with trace amounts of heavy metals.
All the heavy metals were below 1ppm, are any of the levels concerning?
In case there's some natural accumulation process, the concentration can reach any levels, so absolute quantity might (or might not) matter as well.
Why do they always have to baby firefighters? "don't eat the red powder"
Like they were going to!
Appeals to vague cliches only waste the readers' time and distract from the core message. It leaves the reading wondering if this is just fanning the flame of outrage at faceless corporations. Is that what you want your readers wasting their mental energy on? Was that the intent of the people who trecked out to retrieve the powder, bring it back to a lab and analyze it?
Breathing? That's not listed as a benefit in your job description!
Makes me think of the 9/11 first responders, and Jon Stewart fighting politicians who want to cut off their benefits...