Flame retardants found on supermarket shelves
...rding to the researchers. The European Union has banned two types of PBDEs the penta and octa formulations and is currently considering a ban on a third type, the deca formulation. Officials in the United States are still debating the fate of flame retardants, although the main U.S. manufacturer recentl...Flame retardant levels much higher in farmed salmon
...greement with the U.S. EPA. The European Union has banned two types of PBDEs the penta and octa formulations and is currently considering a ban on the deca formulation. The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with a multidisciplinary membership of more th...Latest findings on PCBs to be subject of June workshop at Illinois
...hemicals manufactured and widely used before being banned or restricted since the late 1970s. The talks at the International PCB Workshop will be reviews that highlight new findings and suggest new ways to look at existing information, said co-organizer Larry G. Hansen, a professor of veterinar...Researchers report definitive evidence that HIV-AIDS is not from oral polio vaccine
...amp out polio. In Nigeria, several states recently banned use of the vaccine. Nigeria now has the highest number of polio cases in the world. Although scientists agree that HIV comes from a chimpanzee simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) that infected humans, when and how SIV jumped the species barrier has n...Gulf marine reserves given new life
...eation four years ago, all bottom fishing has been banned in those areas, although trolling for such migratory species as marlin, sailfish, wahoo and tuna has been permitted. The United States Coast Guard is the chief agency responsible for enforcing the bottom-fishing ban plus new regulations governing tro...Purdue scientists finding ways to outsmart crop-damaging bugs
...hen they tested the combined toxicity. Though it's banned in developed countries, DDT is commonly used for mosquito control in Third World countries where malaria is still the No. 1 killer. "In the fly line, we have a known mechanism of resistance, and we understand how DDT works at the molecular level," Pi...Study shows benefits to newborns from federal ban on insecticides
...pyrifos and diazinon - whose use in households was banned by the federal government starting in 2000. The insecticides had been among the most commonly-used agents for residential pest control. In the study, researchers measured the levels of the two insecticides in blood drawn from the umbilical cord...Duke study gives first worldwide measure of sea turtle casualties by longline fishing
...ew England, where both cod and scallop fishing are banned in large areas, he said. "The additional costs are minor, considering the costs of other electronics that state-of-the-art fishing vessels now have on board. That might seem invasive to individual fishermen. On the other hand, if one fisherman is pla...DNA chip will catch beefed up chicken
...ssed in Europe, where all animal remains have been banned from feed since 2000. Trials are planned this year in the UK, the Netherlands and France. "We would find this very valuable if it does what it's meant to," says a spokesman at the UK's environment ministry. DNA microarray chips have long been used ...Athletics, genetic enhancement and ethics
...cal issues relating to endurance enhancements. Can banned endurance enhancement practices, such as taking er...outline current pharmacological doping methods and banned substances. Catlin will describe how steroids get on the banned list, how THG is unique, and what th...Asia's biodiversity vanishing into the marketplace
...er. In 1998, the Government of Sarawak (Malaysia) banned all commercial wildlife trade throughout the state. To enforce this new policy, major legal changes were made to the existing Wild Life Protection Ordinance (1998), and gun owners were also restricted to cartridges purchases of 10/gun owner/month. ...Avian flu: Shut down wild bird markets, experts say
...stances for commercial markets. The EU has already banned the import of pet birds from Asian countries where avian flu has been detected. WCS also says that one proposed solution of killing the free-ranging wildlife will not solve the problem, and can have many unforeseen repercussions. For example, larg...NAFTA arbitrators in environmental case agree to formal public input, a first for trade hearings
...a violated guarantees of investors' rights when it banned a polluting gasoline additive manufactured in Cana...FTA Chapter 11 rights were violated when the state banned MTBE, a suspected carcinogen. The breakthrough, communicated to IISD late Friday, was welcomed by th......led records off all cows within their borders, and banned the use of all ruminant feed. Currently, the United States and Canada lag on all accounts, says Krull. "It's disturbing that, even with a confirmed case of mad cow disease, slaughtered cows are not tested for the disease before they are sent to mark...Peregrine falcons may face new environmental threat
...wo BDE forms the penta and octa versions will be banned in member states of the European Union beginning later this year, and the main U.S. manufacturer of the products recently announced its plans to phase out production of penta- and octa-BDEs as part of a voluntary agreement with the U.S. EPA. "We foun...Pesticide delays sexual maturation
...after the last aerial spray." Endosulfan has been banned in several countries, including Cambodia, Colombia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Indonesia, and others. Its use is severely restricted in at least 20 other countries. Commenting on the study, Dr. Jim Burkhart, science editor for EHP, says, "This is the ...Tracking the illegal ivory trade
... 1980s, and international trade in their ivory was banned in 1989 by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). But poaching still continues and last year the Singapore government seized 6.5 tons of ivory, the largest seizure in the history of the ivory trade. "The flow of illegal ...New study begins to unravel fate of toxic pollutants harbored in Arctic waters
...ls known as persistent organic pollutants. HCB was banned from use in the United States in 1984, but is still used as a pesticide in many developing countries. Farmers in the United States use lindane to treat seeds prior to planting. In this study, HCB rapidly broke down into at least two detectable compou...UC Riverside study indicates mosquito coils may cause cancer
...t the contained "S-2" or octachlorodipropyl ether, banned for sale in the United States. "It is very possible that the coils are exposing users to bischloromethyl ether, also called BCME, a potent lung carcinogen," said Krieger. "High exposure can occur if the coils are used overnight, as they often are." ......s and ultraviolet light effectively detoxified the banned chemicals known collectively as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which can get into the food chain and increase the risk of cancer in humans. Waterways such as the Hudson River have bottom sediments heavily contaminated with PCBs. However, whether...