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In the United States, the Universal Waste Regulations have so far streamlined the hazardous waste management standards for the above U.S. Federal universal wastes (batteries, pesticides, thermostats, and lamps). The regulations govern the collection and management of these widely generated wastes. This facilitates environmentally sound collection and increases the proper recycling or treatment of the universal wastes mentioned above. 

It is important to note that each State in the United States can add different wastes and does not have to include all the U.S. Federal universal wastes. In other words, the States can modify the Federal Universal Waste Rule and add additional universal waste in individual state regulations. A waste generator should check with the State for the exact regulations that apply to the generator. 

Federal universal wastes In the United States, the universal wastes (such as batteries, pesticides, thermostats, lamps, and mercury-containing wastes) are decided and legally defined by the U.S. EPA. 

State universal wastes In the United States, the States do not have to include all of the Federal universal wastes when they use (adopt) the program and the States can make them more stringent and add their own universal wastes (antifreeze, for instance). 

COPPE, Program of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil e-mail cfmahler acd.ufrj.br... 

The author thanks Dr. Lucia Mendonga-Previato of the Department of General Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, for valuable help in the preparation of this article. 

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco E, Ilha do Fundao, 21949-900 Rio de Janeiro - RJ, BrazU... 

Barnett, Adrian, For Want of a Better Word, New Scientist, January 31, 2004. http //www.newscientist.com/opinion/ opinterview. jsp id=ns24321 (Describes the work of linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1980to 1989, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994.)... 

Department of Physics, Federal University of Espfrito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom... 

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA t Program of Glycobiology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... 

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil C L Dwyer... 

The strain Rhizobium EQ1 was used. This strain was isolated from culture of the beans variety "Caupi" from an arid region of the northeast of Brazil. This strain was kept in agar-mannitol-yeast extract (YMA) for several months, and, after its characterization was cataloged, at the culture bank of the School of Chemistry from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, under the code EQ1. 

Ana Cristina Almeida Muller, Carminatti Schulz Propriedade Intelectual, Brazil Marcia Regina da Silva Pedrini, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil... 

Claudio Alberto Torres Suazo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil... 

Clumps of suspension-adapted CHO cells stained with ethidium bromide and acridine orange, observed under a fluorescence microscope. Photo taken by Dr. Rodrigo C. V. Pinto, Cell Culture Engnieering Laboratory, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

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S.R.P. Rocha, M.Sc. Thesis, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, (1995) 161p. 

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