#Dioxins

Toxics Free Kazakhstan Expedition 2013: Samples Travel to Laboratories for Toxic Substance Analysis

Toxics Free Kazakhstan Expedition 2013: Samples Travel to Laboratories for Toxic Substance Analysis

Fourteen people took about a hundred samples of soil, water, and food weighing in total 50 kilograms, travelled approximately two and half thousand kilometres in a post-Soviet...

Arnika helps to improve chemical safety in Belarus

Arnika helps to improve chemical safety in Belarus

To improve awareness of officials and local politicians and to inform experts about the latest knowledge on effects of new chemical substances on human health, and to make...

Greenpeace and Arnika: Spolana Should Safeguard and Clean Up Entire Polluted Site

The environmental organisations Arnika and Greenpeace sent today the new Czech Minister for the Environment Libor Ambrozek and the director of the Czech Inspectorate for the...

Arnika coordinates international project on toxic chemicals

Arnika coordinates international project on toxic chemicals

Chicken eggs from 17 countries (1) on five continents will be tested in Czech laboratories to examine the level of contamination with hazardous toxic chemicals. The environmental...

Over two-thirds of incinerators not complying with limits

ARNIKA suggests stricter measures for treatment of ashes – the final place for most of dioxins

Mydlovary – the end station for toxic chemicals

Company Quail Ltd. “recultivates” sludge bed in Mydlovary with toxic ashes taken from waste incinerators.

Arnika celebrates the anniversary of The Stockholm Convention in six cities

Prague (Arnika) – Seven years ago in Stockholm a global treaty was signed for the reduction of hazardous Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Arnika prepared various events to...

How much dioxins do the Czechs eat? Toxic chemicals even after 12 years

Association ARNIKA ordered measurement of contamination of tissue of trout caught in the river Nisa in Liberec. The measurement was supposed to discover the level of dioxins...

New study showed the high level of dioxins in chicken eggs from Dandora

New study showed the high level of dioxins in chicken eggs from Dandora

The analysis of six sampled eggs collected near the Dandora dumpsite revealed that the concentration of dioxins in the eggs was six times higher than the European Union (EU)...