Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for all flame retardants measured in handwipe and house dust samples.

	Handwipes (ng), n=43			House Dust (ng/g), n=30
Congener	% Detect	GM	Range	% Detect	GM	Range
BDE 28	100	1.05	0.45 – 4.8	97	0.77	<0.07– 30.9
BDE 47	89	19.2	<3.0 – 249	100	452	55.0 – 24,720
BDE 66	96	0.54	<0.17 – 4.7	97	1.6	<0.07 – 26.9
BDE 85/155	96	0.60	<0.05 – 5.0	95	26.7	<0.70 – 1860
BDE 99	96	18.8	<1.1 – 330	100	741	8.0 – 36,210
BDE 100	91	3.0	<0.40 – 31.1	100	98.6	9.0 – 10,230
BDE 153	98	0.80	<0.05 – 7.3	100	40.6	7.0 – 3407
BDE 154	98	0.90	<0.05 – 7.0	100	56.8	5.0 – 3061
BDE 183	7	NA	<0.05 – 0.46	97	1.0	<0.06 – 4.5
BDE 209a	24a	NA	<5	100	1720	441 – 76,130
ΣPentaBDEb		49.0	<5.3 – 397		1400	152 – 74,560
EH-TBB	93	4.1	<0.60 – 154	100	97.0	6.0 – 2,430
BEH-TEBP	53	2.5	<0.70 – 116	100	604	82.9 – 20,960
TBBPAc	70	0.40	<0.02 – 35.0	76	7.9	<0.20 – 245
α-HBCDc	53	0.35	<0.10 – 5.2	100	214	44.4 – 2210
β-HBCDc	47	0.11	<0.05 – 5.1	100	27.8	4.4 – 274
γ_HBCDc	40	0.32	<0.15 – 5.6	100	70.0	11.4 – 823
ΣHBCDd		0.97	<0.05 – 10.8		338	77.6 – 2658
TCEP	47	NA	<24 – 197	100	348	20.0 – 6,920
TCIPP	69	31.3	<13 – 532	100	3440	217 – 67,810
TDCPP	96	74.2	<7.0 – 530	100	2730	621 – 13,110

N/A- indicates not available

^a- Detection compromised by low recovery of ¹³C BDE 209 during extraction.

^b- ΣPentaBDE represents the sum total of BDE congeners 28,47, 66, 99, 100, 85/155, 154 and 153.

^c- Only 30 handwipe samples were analyzed for TBBPA and HBCD.

^d- Sum of alpha, beta and gamma HBCD isomers.