Friday, May 18, 2007

Hong Kong Includes Mercury in Proposed New Rules

This snippet from The Standard.

The Advisory Council on the Environment has proposed to the government a new set of standards to assess land contamination in Hong Kong.
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"Current standards to assess land contamination, adopted in 1994 and based on the Dutch B levels, are outdated and even the Netherlands no longer uses such assessment criteria."
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The chemicals include the cancer- causing dioxins and 15 types of metals such as mercury and lead, according to the council's 80-page proposal.

The full posting is here.

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