In Shandong province, farmers were found to have used a highly toxic pesticide on ginger plants, while in central China, 3m school dictionaries were discovered to be rip-offs full of errors.
Public fury at BP's cost-cutting decisions, secrecy, limited liability, choice to use a highly toxic dispersant in staggering quantities, lack of public remorse and whatever else it has done in violation of its unwritten contract with humanity, has a legitimate basis, and demonstrates the extent to which corporations do what they want.
NH4 + was stabilized with the nitrification inhibitor DMPP and further, by using a highly concentrated and toxic NH4 + solution, which also inhibits oxidation of NH4 + by soil microorganisms [47].
GENEVA (AP) — More than 140 nations adopted the first legally binding international treaty on Saturday aimed at reducing mercury emissions, after four years of negotiations on ways to set limits on the use of a highly toxic metal.
Finally, last month the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that federal wildlife refuges would phase out use of a highly toxic and persistent class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, which like atrazine have been banned by the European Union.
Similarly, a UN convention may soon ban the use of tributyltin, a highly toxic chemical once added to the paint used on almost all ships' hulls, in order to kill algae and barnacles.Shipping itself is a huge cause of pollution.
On March 6 , 1990 Torrance residents in Southern California considered a ballot measure that could have forced the Mobil Oil Co. to spend up to $100 million to restructure its refinery operations and eliminate the use of hydrofluoric acid, a highly toxic chemical that was used to boost the octane level of gasoline.
The method has some major drawbacks, such as the necessity to use anhydrous hydrazine, which is a highly toxic and explosive chemical also used in rocket fuel [ 20].
The remediation of aqueous effluents containing indigo carmine (IC), a highly toxic indigoid dye used as a textile coloring agent and an additive in pharmaceutical tablets and capsules, was studied using four promising technologies: Ultrasound (US), photo-Fenton (PF), TiO2 photocatalysis (TiO2/UV) and electrochemical oxidation with Ti/IrO2-SnO2-Sb2O5 Ti/IrO2-SnO2-Sb2O5 Ti/IrO2-SnO2-Sb2O5
It is reported Mr Litvinenko was poisoned with thallium, a highly toxic chemical once used to poison rats.
