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Chemical Industry, Officials To Work For More Safety [1]

Chemicals producers and governments agreed on Friday to step up efforts to push for greater safety in chemicals from lead in paint to microscopic substances.

But non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said unless the industry and governments come up with more money, agreed targets for cleaning up chemicals by 2020 were unlikely to be met.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2009
Jonathan Lynn [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Environment [4], Bhopal [5], Organic Pollutants [6], Health Effects [7], Chemical Industry [8], Waste Conversion [9], Electronic Waste [10], Hazardous Products [11], Industrial Disasters [12], Bhopal Gas Disaster [13], UNEP [14], NGO [15], India [16], Toxic Wastes [17]
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