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PIC and choose—a toxic-imports accord

Representatives of 62 nations signed a new Rotterdam Convention to control the export of chemicals into countries that decide they cannot ensure the compounds’ safe use.

 

References:

1998. Implementation of the voluntary PIC procedure. United Nations Environment Program Report (Sept. 11). Available at: http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agpp/pesticid/pic/volunt.htm.

1998. Prior informed consent for certain hazardous chemicals in international trade. United Nations Environment Program Report (Sept. 11). Available at: http://irptc.unep.ch/pic/.

Smith, C., et al. 1998. Pesticide exports from U.S. ports, 1995-1996. FASE Research Report (Spring). Available at: http://www.fasenet.org/pest95-96.html.

 

Further Readings:

Raloff, J. 1998. Persistent pollutants face global ban. Science News 154(July 4):6.

______. 1996. The pesticide shuffle. Science News 149(March 16):174.

______. 1996. Pesticides may challenge human immunity. Science News 149(March 9):149.

Sources:

PIC Secretariat
UNEP Chemicals
P.O. Box 356
15 Chemin des Anémones, Châtelaine
CH-1219 Geneva
Switzerland
Websites: http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agpp/pesticid/pic/pichome.htm and http://irptc.unep.ch/pic/

Carl Smith
FASE
4801 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 215
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Website: http://www.fasenet.org
E-mail: carl.smith@fasenet.org

Jim Willis
United Nations Environment Program
15 Chemin des Anémones
CH-1219 Geneva
Switzerland

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 12, September 19, 1998, p. 181.
Copyright © 1998 by Science Service.

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