State of the art in the analysis of brominated flame retardants in biota and sediment: insights from the characterisation of two new certified reference materials.

This was regarded as a statistical artefact because other possible reasons were ruled out, such as degradation of the matrix (which would result in a positive trend for all PBDEs, which was not the case) or dehalogenation of BDE209 (no decreasing trend was observed in the mass fraction of this congener).

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