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In order to accomplish with the aforementioned aim, during the first year of project, an extensive research on the different chemical additives used in six industrial sectors was conducted plastics, textiles, electronics, lubricants, leather, and paper. A list of selected chemical additives was identified for each sector and used as a study basis for the rest of the project. This is the case of the decabromo-diphenyl ether (BDE) used in electronics as a flame retardant or the triclosan used in the textile as a biocide. The results of this investigation were presented in the first volume of this book (Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I Production, Usage and Environmental Occurrence). This volume also included a section of case studies related to the selected additives in different countries (i.e., Denmark, Vietnam, Brazil, India). The main outcomes of the first part of the project are summarized below ... 

These data can then be fed into electronic medical records (EMR) such as those the NHS plans to introduce throughout the UK over the next 2 years. This represents a process that will ultimately both reduce the frequency with which patients have to visit their doctor and improve health care delivery. EMR or electronic personal health records (as they are also known) have already been established, or are being established, in many European nations, such as Denmark. The United States, with its decentralized health care industry, is behind the curve in these efforts. However, in early fall of 2005, IBM and eight other IT companies that form the Technology CEO Council (TCC), including Intel, HP, Dell, Motorola, EMC, Applied Materials, NCR, and Unisys committed to adopt electronic health records based on open standards. In addition to these private sector efforts, the US Department of... 

Some sectors of industry are already developing practical programmes on substitution. At the same time, expertise exists within the European Union to helpsmall and medium companies implement safer products and processes. Some governments, such as in Sweden and Denmark, already provide technical and other support to companies to help them identify safer substitutes to harmful chemicals. 

There are companies that offer purer plays in certain industries, specifically wind and solar energy.These include Vesta of Denmark and Gamesa of Spain in the wind-power industry, and Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar in the solar sector. Stock prices for such companies often already reflect expected rapid rates of growth in these sectors of the energy market. If you are considering such an investment, you should consult your investment professional to determine whether it is a good time to purchase such a stock. 

Although the first phase of industrialization had occurred in the 1870s, Denmark was still predominantly an agricultural society around 1920. At that time about 600,000 people worked in the agricultural sector, or more than three times the workforce employed by industry. The workforce in agriculture reached its peak in 1929 and only then began the shift to industry and service jobs, a trend which has continued to the present. 

The healthy development of the agri- and bio-technical sectors had its roots in the last three decades of the 19th century when chemists, pharmacists and bacteriologists assisted the new dairy cooperatives in order to turn the dairies into small chemical industries. One of the most successful of the new generation of applied scientists was Sigurd Orla-Jensen, a specialist in the chemistry and bacteriology of cheeses and the country s (and indeed the world s) first professor of biotechnical chemistry. There is a nice parallel between the development in production of dairy products in Denmark and Finland, where Virtanen played a role not unlike that of Orla-Jensen in Denmark. However, whereas the Finnish cooperatives established their own research laboratory. 

Compared to the size of the country (5.5 mill), BME is relativeLY big business in Denmark. Danish BME companies develop, produce, and market more than 40 billion Dkr (US 7 billion, 2007) worldwide. That is equivalent to about 31% of the turnover in the Danish health sector. More than 40,000 people are employed in the Danish BME industry in Denmark and abroad. 

In the middle of the nineteenth century Denmark was an agrarian country. Industry represented no more than about four per cent of the gross domestic product. The Danish chemical industry produced simple products, mainly from raw materials of local origin, such as oil and soap, beer and other alcohols, refined sugar, paper, textiles, glass and porcelain. Heavy chemical production had only started in two sectors, namely sulphuric acid (1834) and the manufacture of superphosphate (1851). The first coal gas plants were built in towns in the 1850s. ... 

Some solutions have been found to the problem of protection for employees who make reports. A number of legislative frameworks (no blame, no shame) protect staff who make reports in certain countries (particularly the United States and Denmark ) in many industrial and service sectors. For example, for 25 years the national aviation safety reporting system in the United States (ASRS—Aviation Safety Reporting System) has protected the aviation professionals who report their errors by guaranteeing them anonymity and rendering legal prosecution impossible. Similar systems now exist in the medical domain. 

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