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Article: Chlorofluorocarbons and the incredible shrinking ozone.
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- December 1, 1987
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Chlorofluorocarbons and the Incredible Shrinking Ozone
An unprecedented number of diplomats, environmentalists, and industry leaders from some two dozen nations agreed in September to cut world production and use of chlorofluorocarbons and related chemicals that could destroy the earth's protective atmospheric ozone layer. The agreement represented the first international attempt to restrict use of an air pollutant. It came more than 10 years after the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and Consumer Product Safety Commission had proposed, for the first time anywhere, a partial ban on these chemicals.
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