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From Prevedouros et ak, 2004) We are grateful to the UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Air Quality Division for financial support. We also wish to thank Anna Palm of the Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Dr. Knut Breivik of the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) for their helpful comments. 

Defra Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK)... 

DEFRA (2007) National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pp. 37-38. 

Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Chemicals Stakeholder Forum, Criteria for Identifying Chemicals of Concern (available at http //www.defra. gov.uk/environment/chemicals/csf/criteria/index.htm). See also The Chemicals Stakeholder Forum, Criteria for Concern of the Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (available at http //www.defragov.uk/environment/ chemicals/csf/criteria.htm). 

The Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has run a series of initiatives tiiat are intended to encourage business to employ best practice by demonstrating cost-effective actions that can improve both business and environmental performance through programmes such as Envirowise and the Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme. 

Decontaminotion of the open ond built environment is a Department of the Environment, Food ond Rural Affairs (Defraj responsibility advised by the Government Decontaminotion Service (below). 

CEFAS work on BFRs has been funded by the (now defunct) UK Department of the Environment, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Bromine Science and Environmental Forum. 

The authors would like to thank all of the members of the JoNuS Project Team for interesting discussions about nutrient transformations in estuaries and coastal environments. JoNuS (Joint Nutrient Study) seeks to quantify the transport of nutrients from land to sea and is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of the Environment and the National Rivers Authority (all UK). The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the policy of the funding departments. 

U.K. Department of the Environment is considering banning this and all products containing same. Poison by swallowing gross amounts. Also poison by breathing and skin contact. FDA states limits on amounts used on human foods. 

DEFRA (2007). Sustainable control of parasites in sheep blowfly strike in sheep. London, UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, http //www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/pdf/scops-blowfly 180 507.pdf... 

Bales of waste tyres have been used for many years in large construction projects, and this method of re-use was the subject of a report published by the UK Department of the Enviromnent, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in 2001 [74]. This report reviewed the international literature that was available on baled tyres, in particular the long-term behaviour and stability of the tyres and the metal that binds them together, when used in marine environments (e.g., artificial reefs), watery environments (e.g., flood defence or river management) or acid peat bogs, in order to assess their environmental impact. The scope of the review also included examining baled tyres encased in concrete. As dictated by the waste protocols, tyres may be baled... 

We are working with the Food Quality Control Department of the Ministry of Health to study the contamination of OCPs and PCBs in local fish and chickens. This project is in line with our current effort to assess the health risk arising from consumption of food contaminated with POP chemicals. The health risk assessment of POPs through dietary intakes project involved analyses of OCPs and PCBs in various foodstuff, initially raw materials which will be extended to cooked food. Unfortunately, we do not currently have the capability to analyze PCDD/PCDF in our laboratory but there are two high resolution mass spectrometers in the country that are capable of analyzing PCDD/PCDF. National and international collaborations will definitely improve the country capacity to monitor POPs not only those listed in the Stockholm Convention but other toxic chemicals found in the environment. 

Margareta Haelterman is head of the Quality team at the Health Care Department of the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Brussels. Trained as a medical doctor and epidemiologist, she now coordinates a team promoting patient safety culture, quality systems, risk management, implementation of iimovative processes in care and the use of clinical indicators in different clinical domains. 

In a 1996 review, the Committee of Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) estimated the intake of isoflavones from soya-milk to be approximately 4 mg/kg/day over the first 4 months of life. This is greater than that associated with hormonal effects in premenopausal women, but the COT nonetheless supported the existing Department of Health s advice that... 

Okumura D, Melnicoe R, Jackson T, et al. 1989. Pesticide residues in food crops analyzed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture in 1989. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol 118 87-152. 

Loftus WF, Trexler JC, Jones RD. 1998. Mercury transfer through an Everglades aquatic food web. Dept, of Biol. Sci. and SE Environ. Res. Prog., Florida International University Final Report to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, December 1998, contract SP-329. 

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