NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
TOXICOLOGY
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The Stockholm convention
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was an international agreement to ban a number of endocrine disruptors
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led to REACH agreements on chemical evaluation
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was a European Union agreement to use the precautionary principle
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was an agreement between the US and the European Union to ban many carcinogens
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The convention entered into force on 17 May 2004 with ratification by an initial 128 parties and 151 signatories. Co-signatories agree to outlaw nine of the dirty dozen chemicals, limit the use of DDT to malaria control, and curtail inadvertent production of dioxins and furans.
Detailed explanation-2: -India sends out a positive message to the world, we don’t tolerate health & environmental hazard: Shri Prakash Javadekar. The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today ratified ban of seven Persistent Organic Pollutants(POP’s) listed under Stockholm Convention.
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