An essay question from a 1970s O-level chemistry paper that has stuck with me for a similar length of time:
"The Shah of Iran has decided that oil is too valuable to burn. Explain what else can be done with each fraction."
]]>Does that not indicate to you that perhaps it is not "Europe" but our own Parliament that is to blame?
If you ever look at the Euromyths website you'll find that almost every single point they debunk is down to either wilful misreadings by journalists or deliberate misimplementation by our government.
Speaking as a (former) organic chemist, biomolecular modeller and (briefly) drug designer, I'd say that yes, you're quite correct: there's a serious problem with the revised directives on *cides -they don't go anything like far enough!
No doubt Zhochaka will be along in a bit to provide more detail one way or the other on this, though, so I'll shut up.
]]>[I was also, even after Charlie's warning, blown out of the water by the intensity - it was /not/ just rubber-stamping what I already knew]
(*) My simple taxonomy of computer languages: The BLOCK CAPITAL ones, those with two many semi-colons, and those with too many brackets....
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