Very briefly, it is different from banning because some substances combine with other substances. The original concept was meant to get at those things that were not released intentionally into the environment but were created by a mixing of other things. It's focused on eliminating the release of those substances. The challenge is around the limit of quantification, because now we're finding other substances that meet the general criteria for virtual elimination but are not released in a normal way. They might deliberately be put in a product. So this whole concept of release and of the limit of quantification does not work for that family of substances. I presume that's the nature of your discussions next week.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.