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Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2016 Dec 21;51(1):645–654. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04696

Table 3. PBDE concentrations in dust (ng/g) sampled from 15 households and on handwipes (ng/wipe) sampled from 13 children during a home visit.

Congener	House Dust Sample (n=15), ng/g				Handwipes (n=13), ng/wipe
Congener	LOD	N(%)<LOD	GM	Range	LOD	N(%)<LOD	GM	Range
BDE-47	0.1	0	404	95 – 6,012	0.1	0	7.1	1.4 – 84.3
BDE-85	0.1	0	50	8 - 841	0.1	2 (15%)	0.4	<0.1 – 6.7
BDE-99	0.1	0	648	127 - 10,702	0.1	0	7.2	1.5 – 95.2
BDE-100	0.1	0	118	24 – 1,863	0.1	0	1.4	0.2 – 18.7
BDE-153	0.25	0	76	13 – 1,393	0.25	4 (31%)	0.7	<0.25 – 7.9
BDE-154	0.25	0	54	10 - 869	0.25	5 (47%)	0.5	<0.25 – 6.4
BDE-209	1.0	0	80	29 - 202	1.0	0	7.5	3.0 - 21.3
Sum BDE₃	-	-	1,173	246 – 18,577	-	-	15.8	3.1 – 198.2