Treaty calls time on long-term pollutants
Article Abstract:
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has banned the use of 12 types of pollutant of limited economic importance but chemical manufacturers will fiercely fight subsequent constraints on more financially valuable compounds. The current level of exposure to these compounds that presents a health risk to people and animals is discussed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Trip into the unknown
Article Abstract:
The major obstacles faced by operators in Quality Chemicals, Uganda based drug manufacturing company in spite of exemptions from Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights rules are reviewed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Germany stumbles on enacting plan to integrate eastern scientists
- Abstracts: Biosafety trials darken outlook for transgenic crops in Europe. Europe set for tough debate on curbing aircraft emissions
- Abstracts: GATA4 mutations cause human congenital heart defects and reveal an interaction with TBX5. A genetic blueprint for cardiac development
- Abstracts: MicroRNAs act sequentially and asymmetrically to control chemosensory laterality in the nematode. Genes that act downstream of DAF-16 to influence the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans
- Abstracts: Quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum protein factory. Protein folding and misfolding