Set up 14 months ago, WWRE focuses on such things as common standards for weights, measures, shipment terms and sharing sensitive information.
The most common countries of origin for animal shipment fractions were People's Republic of China (717 shipment fractions); Guyana (635), United Kingdom (359), Vietnam (314), and Indonesia (305).
In the most common scam, shelf companies move shipments of high-value goods (typically, mobile phones) in and out of EU states and pick up VAT repayments each time.
Other than this instance, live shipments were not common.
For example, a single case of polio, a common-source salmonellosis outbreak, a shipment of contaminated produce, or an un-immunised child.
Highway shipment is the most common because road vehicles can gain access to most industrial sites and approved TSDFs.
By number of shipment fractions, the most common animals were 1,343 M. fascicularis macaques, 332 Callithrix jacchus marmosets, 229 M. mulatta macaques, 165 C. lanigera chinchillas, and 107 Potos flavus kinkajous.
Following shipment, mice were acclimated to a common temperature, day-night cycle, and diet for at least 12 days to minimize environmental differences.
In a blistering report submitted this week, the agency, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, notes that the United States does not fully follow procedures common among developed nations that treat international battery shipments as hazardous waste.
The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America calls direct shipment "a growing threat to kids, communities and common sense".
