PFPC Daily - May 28, 2004

Fluoride pollution in Russia

“Near a 5.4 million-square-foot pharmaceutical plant, fluoride is 300 times the norm.”

TED Case Studies: Russia Air Pollution

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“The state of the atmospheric air pollution in the cities and towns of Ukraine was assessed from the data of observations carried out in 54 cities at 166 stationary posts, and at two stations of transboundary transfer...... The content of...hydrogen fluoride was close to the maximum permissible concentration.”

State of Environment: Ukraine
http://www.grida.no/enrin/htmls/ukraina/soe98/indicators/4_1.htm

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“Top-Rated Pollutants in Russian Federation” by Prof. B. Kurlyandsky
http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/POPs_Inc/proceedings/stpetbrg/ku rlyand.htm

“A considerable number of people (from 3 to 4 million) live in areas with increased contents of nitrogen dioxide, hydrogen fluoride, carbon disulfide, carbon oxide, ammonium and styrene in the air.