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A list of perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS) and related compounds that are classified as persistent organic pollutants.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
Controlled chemicals, drug precursor chemicals and hazardous chemicals.
Government response to the report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on xylazine, medetomidine and detomidine.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts for agriculture, forestry and drainage purposes and to prevent damage and find out how to report your actions.
Apply for a licence to interfere with badger setts during development work and find out how to report your actions.
Register for a licence to monitor setts or evict and exclude badgers from setts or to destroy them for development or prevent serious damage.
Guidance for those producing, processing, consuming, importing or exporting chemicals covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (9 April 2024) approved the medicine fosdenopterin (Nulibry) to treat the genetic disease Molybdenum Cofactor Deficiency (MoCD) Type A
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Code of practice for the use of equipment interference by the security and intelligence agencies.
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