#Kenya

Hazardous chemicals in plastic products

Hazardous chemicals in plastic products

Brominated flame retardants in consumer products made of recycled plastic from eleven Arabic and African countries. Both the environment in Africa and the Arabic region and the...

Hazardous Chemicals Found in Plastic Products in Africa

Hazardous Chemicals Found in Plastic Products in Africa

Both the African environment and the human health of Africans suffer from toxic chemicals and imported wastes more than in developed countries. Africa has become the destination...

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Eggs: Report from Africa

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Eggs: Report from Africa

This study investigated POP contamination at a total of six sites: the world's largest scrap yard in Agbogbloshie (Ghana); medical waste incinerators in Accra (Ghana), Kumasi...

POPs Recycling Contaminates Children's Toys with Toxic Flame Retardants

POPs Recycling Contaminates Children's Toys with Toxic Flame Retardants

This report evaluates chemical analyses of toys and plastic products from 26 countries worldwide and calls for stricter limits on the content of brominated flame retardants in...

Market analysis of some mercury-containing products and their mercury-free alternatives in selected regions

Market analysis of some mercury-containing products and their mercury-free alternatives in selected regions

Report based on research focused on mercury free products undertaken by CSOs in 8 countries, 4 continents in 2009

Contamination of chicken eggs near the Dandora dumpsite in Kenya

Contamination of chicken eggs near the Dandora dumpsite in Kenya

ENVILEAD sampled eggs from chickens raised near the Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi, Kenya as part of IPEP's global egg sampling project for unintentionally produced POPs. Dioxins...

The Next Generation of POPs: PBDEs and Lindane

The Next Generation of POPs: PBDEs and Lindane

"Keep the Promise, Eliminate POPs!" Campaign's Report prepared for the First Conference of Parties to Stockholm Convention held in May 2005 based on the results of global...

DDT in Eggs - A Global Review

DDT in Eggs - A Global Review

Last of the serie of the reports based on the results of the global monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in free range chicken eggs at 4 continents organized by...

The Egg Report

The Egg Report

A first of the serie of the reports based on the results of the global monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in free range chicken eggs at 4 continents organized by...