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Japan acts to remove pigments containing higher levels of PCBs
21-Feb-2012
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has launched an initiative to identify pigments that contain more than 50ppm of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and exceed the PCB safety standard established by the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants. The ministry wants to stop the manufacture and sale of such pigments. Its action is in response to a report from the Japan Dyestuff and Industrial Chemicals Association (JDICA) that found traces of PCBs in 57 out of 98 organic pigments tested.
PCBs occur in pigments as unintentional manufacturing by-products.
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