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Phasing-out of legacy brominated flame retardants: The UNEP Stockholm Convention and other legislative action worldwide

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2020
Due to their toxicity and persistence, several families of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) have been listed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Stockholm Convention, a multilateral treaty overseen by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Martin Sharkey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Suggestions on Realizing Closed - Loop System of Functional Hexavalent Chromium Plating in China [PDF]

open access: yesCailiao Baohu, 2021
With the entry into force of the relevant amendments to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants in China, the use of PFOS (Perfluorooctanesulfonates) in the electroplating industry is only limited to the hard metal electroplating in a ...
ZHENG Zhe, CHEN Wen - jing, LIN An, MA Jie, LIU Xiao - wei
doaj   +1 more source

Colonial Copyright, Postcolonial Publics: The Berne Convention and the 1967 Stockholm Diplomatic Conference Revisited

open access: yesSCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2010
In the annals of international copyright history—by and large synonymous with the Berne Union and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works—translation occupies a contested space.
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
doaj   +1 more source

National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention Sweden : Update 2017

open access: yes, 2017
The objective of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is to protect human health and the environment from the substances listed in the Con-vention. Under the Convention, each Party is to develop and endeavour to imple-ment a plan for

core   +2 more sources

Status of persistent organic pollutants in Ethiopia

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Over the years, the chemical market has shown significant growth, but the hazardous impact of chemical use and disposal on the environment and human health is a growing concern.
Sisay Abebe Debela   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cognitive and Neuroimaging Divergence Between Juvenile and Adult FUS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive motor neuron degeneration. Fused in sarcoma (FUS)‐associated juvenile ALS (jALS) represents a distinct and aggressive subgroup with rapid deterioration and poor prognosis.
Alexandra V. Jürs   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Snapshot Survey of the Presence of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Products, Articles, and the Environment in Ecuador

open access: yesEngineering
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a legally binding instrument for 186 Parties (status: April 2023). Accordingly, among other responsibilities, countries are obliged to report the production, import, or export of the ...
Heidelore Fiedler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Future directions for monitoring and human health research for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2018
For the last two and a half decades, a network of human health experts under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) has produced several human health assessment reports.
B. Adlard   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reserves, Injury Severity, and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER‐TBI Observational Study

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Reserve refers to the brain's ability to maintain function after an injury and strongly relates to traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. This study examined (1) whether associations between pre‐injury reserve proxies and outcomes differed across injury severity categories, and (2) whether the impact of injury severity varied across ...
Natascha Ekdahl   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinetic and sequence-structure-function analysis of LinB enzyme variants with β- and δ-hexachlorocyclohexane. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Organochlorine insecticide hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) has recently been classified as a 'Persistent Organic pollutant' by the Stockholm Convention. The LinB haloalkane dehalogenase is a key upstream enzyme in the recently evolved Lin pathway for the ...
Rinku Pandey   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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