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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management
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August 23, 2011 | Sacramento Bee
Chlorine gas leak at Woodland cannery sends 43 to hospitals, USA
Chlorine gas leak at Woodland cannery sends 43 to hospitals...
August 23, 2011 | Agra-net.com
Chemical leak halts tomato processor, USA
A CHEMICAL leak at a tomato processing plant in California has caused more than 40 people to be hospitalised and between 800-1 000 to be evacuated...
August 23, 2011 | RFI
Toxic vinegar kills at least eleven in Xinjiang province, China
Eleven people in China have died and about 140 have fallen ill after consuming contaminated vinegar...
August 22, 2011 | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Investing in Ecosystem Services Vital to Improving Food Security, says UN, Kenya/Sweden
Nairobi/Stockholm, 22 August 2010 - Recognising healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security can help produce more food from each unit of agricultural land,...
August 22, 2011 | VietNamNews
Better pollution rules urged, Vietnam
HCM CITY — Experts have called for professionalising environmental management and protection and scrapping contradictory environmental regulations...
August 22, 2011 | Bombay Financial Express
Pesticide: Chilli’s burning issue, India
India's chilli farming industry is seeing an ever-increasing use of a cocktail of pesticides to keep production rising every year...
August 22, 2011 | Reuters
Australia passes CO2 offset laws, carbon pricing next, Australia
Australia's parliament endorsed the world's first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012...
August 22, 2011 | AFP
Fresh oil spill, fire hits area of Nigeria, Nigeria
A fresh oil spill and a resulting fire has hit an area of Nigeria's main oil-producing region after suspected sabotage to a Shell pipeline, an activist and residents said on Sunday...
August 22, 2011 | Reuters
Japan pins hopes on green power laws, risks abound, Japan
Japan's lawmakers have the opportunity to show how strong their support is for boosting renewable power supply to replace nuclear reactors with the passage of a green energy subsidy scheme likely within days...
August 22, 2011 | ABC News
Fukushima zone likely off-limits for 'decades', Japan
The Japanese government says highly radioactive areas around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will remain no-go zones for decades after the damaged complex is stabilised...
August 22, 2011 | Chemical & Engineering News
Protests Force Chemical Plant Closure In China, China
Municipal authorities in Dalian, a city in northeast China, have ordered the closure of a recently built p-xylene plant after protests by local residents...
August 22, 2011 | The Charlotte Observer
Ammonia leak at SW Charlotte business, USA
No injuries were reported Monday morning after an ammonia leak forced the evacuation of several employees from a business in southwest Charlotte...
August 22, 2011 | KOVR/CNN
Gas leak sends workers to hospital, USA
WOODLAND, CA (KOVR/CNN) – Dozens of people had to go to the hospital on Sunday due to a chemical gas leak at a tomato canning plant in Woodland, CA...
August 22, 2011 | The Orange County Register
Worker's death, chemical odor under investigation, USA
IRVINE – A maintenance worker was found dead Monday morning at an Irvine condominium complex, and authorities briefly closed off the area because of a chemical odor...
August 22, 2011 | Radio New Zealand
Chemical spill at Timaru factory, New Zealand
Four workers have been taken to hospital following a chemical spill at a factory in Timaru...
August 22, 2011 | AFP/ac
Toxic vinegar suspected of killing 11 in China, China
SHANGHAI: Eleven people in China have died and about 140 have fallen ill after consuming vinegar stored in plastic barrels that once contained antifreeze, officials and state media said Monday...
August 21, 2011 | The Province
Small-scale mines expose Nigerian children to lead poisoning, Nigeria
The village miners of northwestern Nigeria probably thought the road to happiness was paved with gold - until their children started dying...
August 21, 2011 | BBC
Hospital workers treated after chemical spill in Essex, UK
Two workers from a hospital in Essex are being treated for the effects of a chemical spillage....
August 20, 2011 | Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Second chemical leak at Australian plant, Australia
An Australian chemical company admitted Saturday that one of its sites had leaked toxic compounds for the second time in two weeks...
August 20, 2011 | AAP/SMH
Orica management faces grilling after second chemical leak, Australia
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