Hexabromobenzene (HBB) has been used as a flame retardant in polymers, plastics, textiles, wood and paper. Its primary uses have been reported in the plastics, paper and electrical industries (Bruchajzer et al., 2004). . production/import volume was listed as 10,000- 500,000 pounds for 1998, but no information is available beyond that time (. EPA, 2002). In addition to its use as a flame retardant, HBB is a thermal decomposition product of octa- and decaBDEs and hexabromobiphenyl (as cited in Bruchajzer et al., 2004). HBB was identified in scrap material in an aluminum recycling plant in Finland (Sinkkonen.
