Airlines Slow to Respond to Health and Safety Standards for Flight Attendants

Initially, the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study set out to learn how flame retardants in the home affect the endocrine system. Who better to study than people overexposed to flame retardants? Airplanes are covered in flame retardant. Enter flight attendants. Harvard teamed up with the Association of Flight Attendantsunion (AFA) and surveyed hundreds of flight attendants…