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It is reported here that the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is charging that the Consumer Product Safety Commission s science advisory panel is moving too slowly, and relying on inadequate data, in evaluating the safety of a phthalate plasticiser, diisononyl phthalate. 

Purvis, M. and Bauler, J. 2004. Irresponsible Care The Eailure of the Chemical Industry to Protect the Public from Chemical Accidents. US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Washington, DC. 

Stanfield R and Lopez C (2000) Lethal Legacy - The Dirty Truth about the Nation s Most Polluting Power Plants. United States Public Interest Research Group, the National Campaign against Dirt Power. 

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Baumann J, U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. Protecting Our... 

A Workers Guide to Solvent Hazards, by Cameron Wright and the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L3G1 (1985). 

Weller, P. and Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (1980), "Acid Rain-The Silent Crisis", Between the Lines, Kitchener... 

On the topics of solute-solvent and solute-solute clustering, there is a significant number of publications by research groups from around the world, demonstrating the tremendous interest of the international research community. This chapter is a review of representative literature results, especially those based on molecular spectroscopy and related experimental techniques. Discussion of the fundamental properties of supercritical fluids will be within the context of enhanced solute-solvent and solute-solute interactions in supercritical fluid solutions, and the current understanding of the reasonably well-established solute-solvent clustering model and the somewhat controversial solute-solute clustering concept will be presented. 

In the last few years, the number of ENDOR publications on systems of biological interest has remarkably increased, indicating that the advantages offered by this technique have been realized by many research groups. It should not be concealed, however, that in this type of compounds poor sensitivity may cause serious problems, so that large samples and (or) computer interfacing capabilities have usually to be available. 

Given the above discussed assumptions and definitions, the next topic that is covered is the background or setting in which the DRRA was introduced. Two areas are of importance here. The first is the other influences, besides FDA regulation, that affect the ability of U.S. pharmaceutical firms to carry out innovative research and, ultimately, develop new drugs as a result of the discovery of NCE s. The second is the numerous criticisms that have been leveled at FDA by the pharmaceutical industry, Congress, academia, public interest groups, etc. 

Studies in this field are just beginning, and the number of publications hardly exceeds a dozen. The most interesting results were obtained by the research groups of Yamada [160-162], Neumann [163,164] and Kozhevnikov [165, 166], Using various type catalysts (Ru porphyrene complexes, polyoxometalates, supported metals), the authors conducted selective oxidations of various types. These include epoxidation of alkenes, oxidation of alcohols, oxidation of alkylaromatics, oxidation and aromatiza-tion of dihydroanthracenes, and some other reactions. The experiments were typically conducted at 373—423 K under 1.0 MPa pressure of nitrous oxide. 

One of the classical approaches of liquid chromatography, paper chromatography, was used for chiral resolution about 50 years ago but is not part of modem practice. In paper chromatography, the stationary phase is water bonded to cellulose (paper material), which is of course chiral and hence provides a chiral surface for the enantiomers. However, some workers used chiral mobile phase additives also in paper chromatography [73,74]. In 1951 some research groups independently [73,75-77] resolved the enantiomers of amino acids. Simultaneously, numerous interesting publications on chiral resolution by paper chromatography appeared [70]. 

As research chemists, you may be interested in how your data are sometimes used and how they are presented to the concerned public. Conclusions or simplified research data may be presented by public agencies—such as state or federal departments of agriculture, forestry, public health, or occasionally the EPA or a Department of Environmental Quality, and by citizens or public interest groups (especially by those groups which are opposed to the use of pesticides in general), and also by university research, teaching, or extension faculty. 

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