1. Après la rédaction du présent article, en mai 2019, le gouvernement du Canada a publié les décisions finales d’évaluation en vertu de la Loi canadienne sur la protection de l’environnement (1999) pour plusieurs retardateurs de flamme bromés. Ces décisions finales sur l’évaluation ne diffèrent pas des méthodes utilisées ou des résultats obtenus dans les projets de rapports d’évaluation analysés dans le présent article. Elles n’affectent pas non plus les analyses ou les conclusions du présent article.
2. Subsequent to the writing of this article, in May 2019, the Government of Canada published final assessment decisions under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 for a number of brominated flame retardants. These final assessment decisions do not deviate from the methods used, or the findings reached, in the draft assessment reports analyzed in this article. Nor do they affect the analyses in, or the conclusions of, this article.
3. We would like to thank research assistants Curtis Sell and Megan Poole for their work on this project. We are grateful to the editors and the anonymous reviewers whose insightful comments and feedback helped strengthen this article. We also extend our thanks to Kim Brooks. This research was supported by Grant nos RHF-100625 and RHF-100626 from the Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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