We review recent studies showing that several pollutants, including phthalates and organotins, interfere with PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors) nuclear receptors and may thereby ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their ...

Classed by the European Chemicals Bureau as a "reproductive toxicant". Animal tests suggest it may disrupt hormone balance - provoking early puberty in female rats. Organotins - heat stabilisers used ...

An international convention banning the use of harmful organotins in anti-fouling paints used on ships' hulls will enter into force on September 17, 2008, following accession to the treaty by ...

WWF, the conservation organization, today called on the IMO member states to adopt the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems, to rapidly phase out the use of ...

DBT is part of a class of high toxic and widely distributed chemical compounds called organotins, DBT is most commonly used as an anti-fouling agent in paint, for example in the fishing and ...

Under it, member nations would require their ships to rapidly phase out the use of organotins, including tributyltin (TBT). The proposal would ban all organotin-based antifouling systems by ...