1.   Banning those chemicals, Evans said, would not only harm farmers financially but would raise the price of fruits and vegetables.

2.   Others, such as Indonesia and Bangladesh, have banned the chemical because traces have appeared in agricultural exports, endangering their international trade links.

3.   Sharpe said green activists want to ban such chemicals on the basis of work he and other researchers have done into male fertility problems.

4.   Several bills seeking to ban the chemical in gasoline sold in the state are under discussion in legislative committees.

5.   That means fuel availability could be affected if the chemical was suddenly banned, Bordvick said.

6.   The most effective method of killing the termites was the insecticide chlordane, exterminators said, but that highly toxic chemical has been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency.

7.   An international treaty subsequently banned the chemicals, and ozone is expected to begin recovering soon.

8.   Denmark this year banned many chemicals used as herbicides and pesticides, sending fir-growers searching for alternatives for keeping their trees healthy.

9.   Such chemicals are banned in Ukraine.

10.   The chemicals are banned in Ukraine.