Reuters – 23 Sep 2009
Press Releases – EN_FR_DE_ES_IT – 23 Sep 2009
Polish – 23 Sep 2009
Russian – 24 Sep 2009
ChemieDE – 25 Sep 2009
CNW Canada – 28 Sep 2009
SCI – 12 Oct 2009 (Interview with John Vijgen)
Treehuggerblog – 21 Oct 2009
Ends Viewpoint: John Vijgen – Oct 2009
Chemical ‘time bomb’ threat – Oct 2009 (source: C&I Magazine)
For further information contact: John Vijgen, Director of IHPA
Visit the Forum Presentations page and find near 80 presentations from the conference which was held in Brno, Czech Republic in September 2009.
Index of sessions:
Opening session
Section 1. HCH and other pesticides global and regional problems
Section 2. POPs management in the Czech Republic – experiments, …
Section 3. Pesticide waste management
Section 4. Obsolete pesticides and POPs – destruction technologies
Section 5. OCPs and other POPs monitoring, modelling, risk assessment
Section 6. Remediation of contaminated sites
Section 7. Public participation – capacity building
Section 8. Special workshop for Central Asia countries: Problems and initiatives for solutions on obsolete pesticides
The International HCH & Pesticides Association (IHPA) is an independent and non-political network of committed individuals that wants to draw international attention on the world-wide problems stemming from the production and use of HCH and other obsolete pesticides and its dangers for human health and the environment.
