“…Like other toxic halogenated aromatics, including 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) (Poland and Knutson, 1982; Poland and Glover, 1980), commercial PBBs cause weight loss, thymic atrophy, liver damage, endocrine disorders, and various skin lesions in exposed animals (Gupta and Moore, 1979;Gupta et al, 1981Gupta et al, , 1983a. Commercial PBBs are also potent inducers of a variety of drug-metabolizing enzymes, including several forms of cytochrome P-450 (Dent et al, 1976(Dent et al, ,1977(Dent et al, ,1978Parkinson et al, 1983; Dannan et al, 1983). FireMaster can apparently act as both a genotoxic and epigenetic carcinogen.…”