Chemical geographic shift

All in all, a new world order for the supply chain of pharmaceutical fine chemicals is emerging. In terms of geographic distribution, the center of activity will shift from the West to the East, namely from the USA to Europe and... 

We next mrn to examine exposure to BFRs and particularly PBDEs. This examination is complicated by the year and geographic location of the analysis because of the rapid changes in environmental concentrations and differing usage rates of BFRs according to country. However, it is this complication that led us to hypothesize that the route of exposure can shift over time as a persistent chemical is released from its point of use (and early exposure) to outdoors and from there to our food supply. 

With the shift in the balance of power from the coal to the chemical industry, the geographical center of the nitrogen industry moved from the coal mining district of Rhineland-Westphalia first to the Rhine valley, then to the brown coal district in central Germany for reasons of military security. 

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