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poisonous exemption: The US and other industrialised countries have been granted further exemption for using methyl bromide as a pesticide and soil fumigant. A recent meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase out ozone-depleting substances, decided to give a fresh exemption of over 2,600 tonnes to the industrialised countries for 2005, in addition to the over 12,500 tonnes agreed to in March 2004 (see Down To Earth,
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