Government responsibility

Metal compounds, particularly compounds of the heavy metals, have a history of importance as antimicrobial agents. Because of regulations regarding economic poisons in the environment they are no longer widely used in this appHcation. Mercury, lead, cadmium, uranium, and other metals have been imphcated in cases of poisoning that resulted in government response. The metals whose compounds have been of primary interest as antimicrobials are mercury, silver, and copper. 

CURRENT GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL THREAT... 

Anon. (1999) Questionnaire to OSPAR Contracting Parties - Response from Germany. German Government response to an OSPAR Government questionnaire. See OSPAR Document WOCAI 99/5/ Info.l (Madrid, 1999). 

Chang S, McKinsey TA, Zhang CL, Richardson JA, Hill JA, Olson EN (2004) Histone deacetylases 5 and 9 govern responsiveness of the heart to a subset of stress signals and play redundant roles in heart development. Mol Cell Biol 24 8467-8476... 

Neither a local government nor an employee of the Federal Government or of any State or local government, responsible for providing information to the national instant criminal background check system shall be liable in an action at law for damages—... 

The following sections follow the framework developed by Cohen, Cercone, and Macaya (2002) to discuss government responsibilities in facilitating a robust pharmaceutical system and access to essential medicines. The discussion begins with national drug policies, followed by responsibilities in registration, selection, procurement, distribution, and service delivery. The discussion concludes with policy considerations. 

When war broke out it was poison gas that captured the government and public imagination as one of the worst of the prospective horrors of war. Aside from the issue of gas masks, government responses to the... 

The act establishes a trust fund (Superfund) to finance government responses to releases or threats of releases of hazardons snbstances. However, if groundwater contamination resnlts from normal application of pesticides, the law does not allow the agency to recover costs from pesticide apphcators or private users. 

Municipal or local government, responsible for matters such as water supply, building regulations, sewerage and garbage ... 

The committee found less than adequate cooperation between the federal government (responsible for approving new drugs on the market) and provincial governments... 

Therapeutic Goods Administration. Government response to recommendations arising from the Therapeutic Goods Administration Review. Canberra AGPS, 1997, April 37-38. 

The United States of America in 1998 announced the Chemical Right-to-Know (RTK) Initiative46 which was the US government response to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study that found that very little basic toxicity information is publicly available on most of the HPV chemicals made and used in the USA. It should be noted that the US definition of UPV chemicals is different from that used in the rest of the world, as the US definition is a chemical produced in or imported into the US A in amounts... 

If the diffusion layer can be renewed, the result is essentially as discussed earlier for NPP at the SMDE. Detection limits are typically poorer than at an SMDE because most solid electrodes are afflicted by background currents from slow faradaic processes associated with the electrode surface itself. If the diffusion layer cannot be effectively renewed, the polarographic wave will not show a plateau, but instead will pass through a peak, then droop at more extreme potentials as cumulative depletion of the electroreactant is manifested. The curve resembles a linear sweep voltammogram for essentially the reasons governing responses in LSV (Section 6.1). 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—A branch of the United States government responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that ensure the protection of the environment. Online at http //www.epa.gov/. 

Numeracy and literacy education is a state government responsibility. We will assist in connecting Aboriginal contractors to these resources. 

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