Form for submission of information specified in Annex E

of the Stockholm Convention pursuant to Article 8 of the Convention

Introductory information
Name of the submitting Party/observer / Kingdom of Bahrain
Contact details (name, telephone, email) of the submitting Party/observer / Dr. Afaf Al Shoala, POPs focal Point
Director, Environmental Control Directorate
P.O. Box 32657
Isa Town, Kingdom of Bahrain
Tel: +973 17875175
Fax: +973 17786102 E-mail:
Chemical name
(as used by the POPs Review Committee) / Endosulfan
Date of submission / 6th Nov.2008
(a) Sources, including as appropriate (provide summary information and relevant references)
(i) Production data: / NIL
Quantity / NIL
Location / NIL
Other
(ii) Uses / NIL
(iii) Releases: / NIL
Discharges / NIL
Losses / NIL
Emissions / NIL
Other
(b) Hazard assessment for endpoints of concern, including consideration of toxicological interactions involving multiple chemicals (provide summary information and relevant references)
It is listed in the Agriculture Authority list as banned chemical, and has not been permitted to be used in the country.
(c) Environmental fate (provide summary information and relevant references)
Chemical/physical properties / Not Available NA
Persistence / NA
How are chemical/physical properties and persistence linked to environmental transport, transfer within and between environmental compartments, degradation and transformation to other chemicals? / NA
Bio-concentration or bio-accumulation factor, based on measured values (unless monitoring data are judged to meet this need) / NA
(d) Monitoring data (provide summary information and relevant references)
NA
(e) Exposure in local areas (provide summary information and relevant references)
General / NA
As a result of longrange environmental transport / NA
Information regarding bio-availability / NA
(f) National and international risk evaluations, assessments or profiles and labelling information and hazard classifications, as available (provide summary information and relevant references)
NA
(g) Status of the chemical under international conventions
NA

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