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All industrial users of mercury should be required to reduce discharges
of mercury into the environment to levels approximating normal background
levels. WHO has warned against the use of alkylmercury compounds in seed
dressing (WHO, 1976).
Recent Control changes in Japan: Prohibition of the use of all organic mercury compounds for all agricultural seed dressings and the use of mercury for electrolysis in the chlor-alkali industry. |