| temporal trends of brominated flame retardants in coastal waters of japan and south china: retrospective monitoring study using archived samples from es-bank, ehime university, japan. | the present paper is a summary of studies conducted at the center for marine environmental studies, ehime university, on temporal trends of brominated flame retardants (bfrs) in coastal waters of japan and south china. archived marine mammal fat tissues and dated sediment cores were used to evaluate temporal trends of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (pbdes) and hexabromocyclododecanes (hbcds) in relation to their usage in the region. the results indicate that environmental concentrations of these ... | 2008 | 18282585 |