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The authors would like to thank Dr Mark Taylor, Dr Raquel Duarte-Davidson and the other participants who contributed to our understanding during a workshop on the ecological effects of sex hormone disrupters held at the Institute in January 1998. We also acknowledge the financial support provided by the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions for the work at lEH on endocrine disruption. However, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of any government department or agency. 

Ronald E. Hester is Professor of Chemistry in the University of York. He was for short periods a research fellow in Cambridge and an assistant professor at Cornell before being appointed to a lectureship in chemistry in York in 1965. He has been a full professor in York since 1983. His more than 300 publications are mainly in the area of vibrational spectroscopy, latterly focusing on time-resolved studies of photoreaction intermediates and on biomolecular systems in solution. He is active in environmental chemistry and is a founder member and former chairman of the Environment Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and editor of Industry and the Environment in Perspective (RSC, 1983) and Understanding Our Environment (RSC, 1986). As a member of the Council of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and several of its sub-committees, panels and boards, he has been heavily involved in national science policy and administration. He was, from 1991-93, a member of the UK Department of the Environment Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances and is currently a member of the Publications and Information Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Table 10.7 Methods for the examination of wafer and associated materials published by the UK Department of the Environment...

The work reported here was part-funded, and jointly carried out by the Building Research Establishment of the UK Department of the Environment (Contract No. 7910-2199). The authors would like to thank Dr P R Warren and his colleagues, of the Building Research Establishment, for their interest and advice during this project. 

It is reported that the UK Department of the Environment, Transport The Regions (the DETR) has announced an innovative study to compare environmental and health impacts of PVC and alternative building and packaging materials. The research will take a year and will be carried out by consultancies Entec and Ecobalance. Details are given. 

Moxon, R. (2000) Draft OSPAR Background Document on Mercury and Organic Mercury Compounds, presented by the United Kingdom to OSPAR as Document PRAM 00/3/4 (Calais, 2000). UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, London. 

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. 

Harding, M.J.C., Bailey, S.K., Davies, I.M. (1992). TBT imposex survey of the North Sea. Series Scottish Fisheries Working Paper No. 9/92, UK Department of the Environment, Aberdeen. 

Buckley-Golder, D., 1999. Compilation of EU PCDD/Fs exposure and health data, Task 2 Environmental Levels. European Commission DG Environment, UK Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions (DETR). 

UK Department of the Environment, Standing Committee. Analytical Methods. Examination of Waters and Associated Materials. Chlorobenzenes Water, Organochlorine Pesticides, PCBs, Turbid Waters, Halogenated Solvents, Related Compounds, Sewage, Sludge Waters. 1985. 44 PP- (1986). 

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. 

Fig. 5.13 Mean annual dissolved nitrate concentrations in the River Thames, UK, 1930-1980. WHO limit refers to the World Health Organization recommended maximum safe nitrate concentration in drinking water. Data courtesy of UK Department of the Environment National Water Council, Crown Copyright 1984.

European Union Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, 94/62/EC. Producer Responsibility for Packaging Waste, UK Department of the Environment, May 1995. 

The RCEP 17th report also recommended that the UK Department of the Environment (UK DoE) press forward with studies to determine the Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) for particular waste streams. This concept is important modem waste management and is worthy of further consideration at this point. 

Klink, R.E. and Ham, R.K. (1982) Effects of moisture movement on methane production in solid waste landfill samples. Resources and Conservation, 8,29-41. Knox, K. (1989) A review of technical aspects of co-disposal. A report prepared for the UK Department of the environment. No. CWM 007/89. 

The commonly used test prescriptions of the UK Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency (DOE/PSA), based on the comprehensive experimental work of Woolley et al are more specific. They include the requirements for material or composite selection (DOE/PSA FR 2 for polyurethane foams, DOE/PSA FR 3 for fire barrier covers, DOE/PSA FR 4 for composite upholstery)... 

A key fector in disposal of GCR and other wastes is the volume that will arise for disposal during the operating lifetime and decommissioning of GCR fecilities. The basis of information on waste arisings is the UK Radioactive Waste Inventory ( the Inventory ) which is maintained jointly by Nirex and the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. 

Thus solvents have to be reduced in line with targets, eliminated, recovered or incinerated. In order to assist customers for whom solvent recovery or combustion is not economically viable, Henkel decided to support the new EEC VOC Directives using a philosophy similar to the BATNEEC philosophy stipulated by the UK Department of the Environment and other national requirements, by developing waterborne products to eliminate solvent emissions. 

A Working Party on Refuse Disposal commissioned by the UK Department of the Environment published a report in 1971 [437] in which it was stated that... 

A man died when carbon dioxide seeped into a factory from a mine entry in Widdrington, Northumberland, UK (Department of the Environment, 1996)... 

As joint organizers of this workshop, the Commission of the European Communities and the US Environmental Protection Agency are very pleased to have been able to collaborate in this important initiative. They also wish to acknowledge, with gratitude, the financial and administrative support of the UK Department of the Environment and the Scottish Home and Health Department, and the excellent local organization undertaken by Dr Mary Fulton and her colleagues of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. 

The battery has been used with 78 children aged 6-6j years whose body lead burdens were recently assessed as part of the current UK Department of the Environment monitoring exercise. PbB was determined by venous sample analysed by Dr T. Delves at the University of Southampton. In addition to the automated battery and the psychometric assessment, parents are being interviewed so that we may obtain detailed information on social factors. 

The work reported in this paper was supported by the Commission of the European Community (Contract ENV 780 UK(H)) and the United Kingdom Medical Research Council (SPG 831763). We are grateful to the Inner London Education Authority and the many teachers, parents and children who participated in the studies. We are grateful to the Department of the Environment, and especially to Mr M. Quinn and Mr P. Cooney for allowing us access to part of the sample involved in the UK Department of the Environment monitoring exercise. 

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