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Alaskan Birth Defects Double the Average

Posted by Mel on August 25th, 2008

Please see: http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/504361.htmlBirth defects are at an alarming rate in Alaska. Unfortunately, the plea to the governor contains recommendations for addressing everything but the food they eat.POPs, the persistent organic pollutants such as chlordane and toxaphene found in the Arctic food chain and concentrated in fattty fish and marine mammals will dwarf the intake of chemicals […]

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UNEP POPs Ban is Stalled

Posted by Mel on August 7th, 2008

I have often referred to the United Nations voluntary agreement to ban POPs as somewhat less than useless. Why would developing countries lacking  in the rule of law, a regulatory infrastructure, will, charity, and funds give up cheap and effective pesticides? In the U.S. banning DDT, toxaphene, chlordane etc took all the will of a […]

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