1.   Industrial chemicals such as volatile organochlorine compounds can also find their way into groundwater, with serious implications for its quality.

2.   Paints today are getting safer as companies remove volatile organic compounds, but you still need to be careful.

3.   Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds, which can pollute indoor and outdoor air.

4.   This last disadvantage can have serious cost and technology implications if the number and toxicity of the volatile compounds are high.

5.   Reducing emissions of solvents -- volatile organic compounds -- is a key objective of pending legislation.

6.   These substances, known as volatile organic compounds, evaporate into the atmosphere as the paint dries.

7.   Other international agreements, for example on the control and reduction of volatile organic compounds, are currently being discussed by a variety of authorities and organisations.

8.   Volatile organic compounds come from a wide variety of sources, both man-made and natural.

9.   And it was agreed that all volatile organic compounds would be treated as a single, interchangeable pollutant for purposes of creating a market in emissions.