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ESDO organized a press briefing on- ‘Online Selling of Illegal Mercury-laced Skin Lighteners: Growing Health Risk in Bangladesh’

Amazon, eBay among websites found selling illegal mercury-laced skin lighteners. In Bangladesh, Daraz-a leading online shopping site is selling illegal mercury containing (934.33-116600 ppm Hg) skin lightening creams158 products tested…

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December 12, 2019

Dangerous, mercury-laden and often illegal skin-lightening products and measures to restrict them under the Minamata Convention

Zero Mercury Working Group organized a side event on Skin Lightening Products and measures to restricts them on 27 November in Geneva, Switzerland. They reveled a joint study report findings…

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November 28, 2019

Intervention on Waste Thresholds jointly from ESDO and Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG)

On 26 November, 2019 ESDO and Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) in Minamata COP3 jointly intervened on Mercury Waste Thresholds. They supported the outcome of the work of the group…

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November 27, 2019