The snag is that clear documentation showing the object's provenance is usually required before any action can be taken, and with inventories destroyed or missing, the business of cataloguing the stolen objects looks like being an extremely slow business.
The independent publisher Kicks Books, whose inventory was destroyed by the storm, is also making its way back.
But he lost a month's worth of customers, most of his inventory was destroyed by smoke and water, and the interruption of electricity ruined the perishables.
The director of Iraq's Interpol office, Salahudin al-Tahi, noted that records of the museum's inventory were destroyed during the looting, complicating efforts to identify looted works abroad and make a legal case for their repatriation.
After three months of negotiations, Simon & Schuster last week issued a formal letter withdrawing publication rights for the autobiography, called "Living History," and demanding that the remaining inventory be destroyed.
Presumably, the remaining inventory was destroyed.
Thus, contrary to the assumed emission of 50 million Ci into the atmosphere (i.e., an estimated 3.5% of the radioactive inventory of the destroyed fuel elements, leaving over 90% of it in the "sarcophagus"), these scientists conclude a 26-fold larger release of radioactivity, leaving no more than 10 15% of the inventory behind.
Under pressure from federal health regulators, the manufacturer of two popular sports supplements has voluntarily destroyed the inventory of the products, the Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
It destroyed the inventories of more than 80 vintners, worth about $100 million.
"We will scrap or destroy inventory as it becomes unusable," said Larry Carter, the company's chief financial officer.
