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Bromine Science and Environmental Forum
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The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum is a bromine industry front group run by the global PR firm Burson-Marsteller (BM).
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Membership
Established in 1997, BSEF has only four members: the world’s major producers of bromine flame retardants, based in the US, Israel and Japan.
Personnel
According to their website: [1]
- Ray Dawson - Chair; with Albemarle Corporation, Brussels
- Lawrie McLaren - Program Director; with Burson-Marsteller, Brussels
- John R. Kyte - US Regulatory Affairs support; with Burson-Marsteller, Washington D.C.
- Klaus Rothenbacher - Science Program Manager, Brussels
- Jelle Frolich - Product Stewardship Manager, Brussels
Contact details
In Brussels BSEF operates out of the same building as BM. On its website it lists the Washington D.C. office of BM as its contact address.
118 Avenue de Cortenbergh
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel. +32 2 733 93 70
Fax. +32 2 735 60 63
E-mail: mail AT bsef.com
Web: http://www.bsef.com/
BSEF US Regulatory Affairs support:
John R. Kyte
Burson-Marsteller
1801 K Street, NW Suite 1000-L
Washington, D.C. - USA
Tel : +1.202 530 4847
Fax : +1.202 530 4500
E-mail : John_Kyte AT was.bm.com
External links
- "House of Mirrors: Burson-Marsteller Brussels lobbying for the bromine industry," Corporate Europe Observatory, January 2005.
- Barbara Gunnell, "In Brussels, the lobbyocracy rules", The New Statesman, February 7, 2005.
