Mercury poisoning treaty

GENEVA, Switzerland - Japanese government representatives applaud after negotiators agreed, in accordance with Japan's proposal, to name a new international treaty on regulating mercury trading as the "Minamata Convention," at the United Nations in Geneva on Jan. 19, 2013. Minamata is a city in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture that has given its name to a mercury-poisoning disease that was caused by the discharge of mercury-laced wastewater by a local chemical plant.

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