Dear colleagues and friends,

We are happy to send you the first call for papers of the 14th Int. HCH & Pesticides Forum, to be held in Astana, Kazakhstan from 27-29 of June 2017. We are very proud that the forum will be part fo the EXPO in Astana during that period.

We hope that you will join us and exchange your experiences with Kazakh and other Central Asia experts in our field.

With kind regards
John Vijgen
and
Kazken Orazalina
National Coordinator 14th Int. HCH & Pesticides Forum

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Large contaminations at two former Lindane production plants have been reported by a group of Danish, Romanian and Slovakian journalists at the 13th International HCH and Pesticides Forum, held 3-6 November 2015 in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain:

– at the former Lindane production site in Turda, Romania, large HCH-Waste contamination are reported and illegal collection and sales of DDT
Produced by Journalists Morten Hansen and Marcel Pazman in cooperation with Romanian journalists. See video at website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cJ-Dphqjc

– at the former Juraj Dimitrov Chemical Enterprises (CHZJD) in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, where during the years 1956–1966 this factory produced more than 13,000 tons of Lindane. Morten Hansen and Marcel Pazman report large stockpiles of HCH-waste (around 90 000 m3) and huge pollution of groundwater (millions of m3). See video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9QdARNXAfY

For information on the work of the journalists, please go to: http://contaminatedfuture.org/

John Vijgen
IHPA

Now available on IHPA website the new Spanish version as result of the 13th Forum as part of the EU Discovered Life project:
Spanish – Obsolete (lethal) Pesticides, a ticking time bomb and why we have to act now

The International HCH & Pesticides Association requests you to pay attention for the following press release which is attached to this mail:
Obsolete pesticides and other highly toxic chemicals dumped in mega-sites are threatening human health and environment in the European Community!

For more info please contact:

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Between 1974 and 1992 Inquinosa produced 140,000 tons of toxic HCH waste that were buried in several uncontrolled dumps in Sabiñánigo. Inquinosa produced LINDANE, a pesticide banned in the EU since 2000 and worldwide by the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention in 2009.