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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. 

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... 

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. 

In April 2005, after consulting the UK Chemical Stakeholder Forum, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs unveiled its intended input to EU negotiations on dealing with the highest risk chemicals under REACH. The Chemical Stakeholder Forum was also consulted on which organisation should be the UK s competent body for REACH and on the Chemical Industry Association s plan to create a database of chemicals marketed in the UK. 

The UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs held a workshop on 10 June 2005 on Solutions to REACH Non-Animal Methods for Toxicology Testing . 

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. 

Maltby L, Blake N, Brock TCM, van den Brink PJ. 2002. Addressing interspecific variation in sensitivity and the potential to reduce this source of uncertainty in ecotoxicologi-cal assessments. No. DEFRA project code PN0932. London (UK) UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 22 p. 

DEFRA and EA] Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Environment Agency, UK. 2002. CLR 7 assessment of risks to human health from land contamination an overview of the development of the soil guideline values and related research. Bristol (UK). 

The lead government department responsible for the development of the NAP was the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which has primary responsibility for the development of UK environmental policy. Alongside Defra, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) also took a major role, providing the UK s energy-use forecasts, serving as a liaison with industry, and later taking... 

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