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Outdated iHemp regulations are stifling our economic growth. 👩👩👧👦 Join the Hemp Army and demand updated iHemp regulations! Let's contact government and tell them WHY we need to make change - it’s time for iHemp to thrive without the red tape. Use our template or create your own letter: https://buff.ly/4fmFxzu Send to reviews@regulation.govt.nz and your local MP (find them here: https://buff.ly/2JTIE57) to get your voice heard! 💬 #HempAdvocacy #TakeAction #NZHemp

Countering narratives. This single study of Bakwa, a small district in the truly remote desert of southwest Afghanistan and interviews with the Taliban district governor and residents adds further to the debunking of these five tropes: ·      Methamphetamine production in Afghanistan is in the vast majority of cases made from the ephedra plant and NOT over the counter medicines. See: https://lnkd.in/eNNsg33p ·      Methamphetamine production in Afghanistan, already operating at a vast scale, reduced as a consequence of the Taliban’s ban and has NOT increased due to farmers switching to it when stopping cultivation opium poppy.  See: https://lnkd.in/eh4VkQDT ·      The Taliban gained significantly more income from taxing licit goods than from taxing the drugs economy, which it did NOT own and/or control.  See: https://lnkd.in/dg2F58J5 ·      Bombing both heroin and methamphetamine labs by HQ Resolute Support was wildly ineffective, harming large numbers of civilians, costing tens of millions of USD, and was NOT the success claimed by HQ Resolute Support. See: https://lnkd.in/dzT_k4p ·      Ground based raids on drugs labs, by internationally supported Afghan law enforcement and military units had little effect on the drugs industry and were NOT the successes variously claimed by ISAF and HQ Resolute Support over the years. Indeed, and counter intuitively for many, the closing of the drugs trade at Abdul Wadood Bazaar in Bakwa is the largest and most effective counter narcotics operation globally to date. See: https://lnkd.in/dqAPtXPg https://lnkd.in/dXPZk34W

Low Boiling Point Naphthas (LBPNs) Group Draft Asessment in consumer products. Petroleum industry site-restricted and industry-restricted LBPNs have previously been assessed. For subgroup 1, the C9–C14 hydrocarbon solvents, chronic neurotoxicity effects on humans and developmental neurotoxicity effects on laboratory animals were identified in inhalation studies. For subgroup 2, the C9 aromatic hydrocarbon solvents, reduced body weights, dose-related mortality in maternal animals, reduced fetal body weights, and delayed ossification in their offspring animals were identified in inhalation studies conducted on laboratory animals. For subgroup 3, the C6–C9 aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents, limited health effects data were available for these substances; therefore, toxicological data from representative UVCBs were used to inform the health effects assessment. A reproductive and developmental toxicity endpoint identified in laboratory animals was considered applicable for short-duration exposures, while long-term exposures were compared to a carcinogenicity study in mice. LBPNs may be used in food packaging materials, incidental additives, and/or products available to consumers and have potential non-petroleum industry releases where they are widely used as solvents. Low Boiling Point Naphthas Group - Canada.ca

It is easy to take the food that ends up on our table for granted. Working with farmers, I was always impressed by the level of hard work they put in to feeding us despite the challenges of climate change, evolving pest challenges and policies that limited their toolkit for managing the pests that threaten crop yields. To now see these challenges complemented in the UK with farming as a business facing additional tax burdens is heartbreaking. The proposed tax barrier for UK farming businesses is a lose-lose situation. The UK is already a net importer of food and rural economies will only suffer if local farming businesses go bust and leave the UK even more dependent on imports. Increasing the cost of growing food in the UK and as a result, seeing the price of food increase and households come under increasing pressure to feed themselves is also a bad potential outcome. #BritishFarming #FamilyFarmTax #Agriculture #BackBritishFarming

Dissemination of Research Findings: Implementation of Self-injection of Subcutaneous Depo-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA SC) Policy in Malawi #MOH #JSI #Stakeholders

On July 10, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Ministry of Environment has issued Government Decree No. 244 - Cabinet Order Partially Amending the Enforcement Order of the Law Concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture, etc. of Chemical Substances. According to the Cabinet Order, some products like Clothing with oil- and water-repellent properties containing PFOA-related substances shall not be imported to Japan. The import ban will apply form January 10, 2025. Moreover it designates PFOA-related compounds, including perfluorooctyl iodide (CAS 507-63-1) and 8:2 fluorotelomer alcohol (CAS 678-39-7), as Class 1 Specified Chemical Substances from January 10, 2025. Read additional details here! #weareULSolutions https://bit.ly/3LS0CVU

What is the precentage of export duty stipulated on onion exports? (Answer Down Below) . . . . . Answer: Option 4 . . #mcq #dailymcq #qna #upsc #ias #upscmcq #prelims #prelimsmcq

Non-Tariff Barriers (Sanitary and phytosanitary/ Technical Barriers to Trade/ Other related notifications) Month: June 2024 (as of 26th June 2024) Total Number of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) notified by WTO: 349 Number of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) notified by WTO: 218 Number of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) notified by WTO: 125 Others: 06 #trade #ntb #tbt #sps

On July 10, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Ministry of Environment has issued Government Decree No. 244 - Cabinet Order Partially Amending the Enforcement Order of the Law Concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture, etc. of Chemical Substances. According to the Cabinet Order, some products like Clothing with oil- and water-repellent properties containing PFOA-related substances shall not be imported to Japan. The import ban will apply form January 10, 2025. Moreover it designates PFOA-related compounds, including perfluorooctyl iodide (CAS 507-63-1) and 8:2 fluorotelomer alcohol (CAS 678-39-7), as Class 1 Specified Chemical Substances from January 10, 2025. Read additional details here! #weareULSolutions https://bit.ly/3WXSUzV

Learn more about the Health Canada Drinking Water Objective for PFAS, which was recently established at 30 ng/L for the sum of the 25 PFAS listed in EPA Method 533. The new drinking water PFAS method of ALS in Canada now reports all 40 PFAS from the EPA 1633 method (including the 25 from Method 533). Read the full article on our website: https://lnkd.in/gdedaGZv #PFAS #drinkingwater #water #laboratory #testing #healthcanada #canada #oneALS