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Scotch brand is a type of adhesive tape.

It uses a pressure sensitive adhesive to do it.

The result, a four by four inch artificial nano gecko adhesive.

Both processes leave toxic residues and somewhat less oily dirt.

Residues and waste from the food industries prepared animal fodder

For breakfast, butter and tea with milk alone contain over ten possible and three proven carcinogenic residues and almost twenty residues potentially able to disturb the hormone system.

Residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes

OTHER RESEARCH Even Berkeley University, in California, is dedicating itself to the research of a new adhesive.

This has inspired the design of the first self cleaning dry adhesive the patent issued, we're happy to say.

These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.

There is also the problem of residues of pesticides in foodstuffs, and wc recently debated Mr Imbeni's report on this subject.

In any case they are substances which are sold internationally and recur somewhere, either in foodstuffs or as residues in foodstuffs.

With an adhesive of only 2.5 cm squared the scientists have succeeded in gluing a body of 100 kilograms onto a vertical wall.

The approx. 1,040 km would, if necessary, have to be gritted with wet salt, which has better adhesive properties, within no more than three hours.

And here's the simplest version in nature, and here's my collaborator Ron Fearing's attempt at an artificial version of this dry adhesive made from polyurethane.

VITALONE. (IT) Mr President, last December the Commission presented to the Council a proposal for a regulation establishing the maximum quantities of permitted pesticide residues.

The strength of evidence and the potential magnitude of harm greatly exceed those of food contaminants or pesticide residues, which are appropriately regulated to very low levels.

For dinner, salmon steak was the richest, with 34 chemical residues and even the plastic plate used for warming the meal in a microwave, was not exempt.

Report by Mr Imbeni, adopted on 11 September 1990 (PE A3 12 90) on the proposal relating to Maximum levels for pesticide residues (COM(88) 798 final)

And just recently we've made a breakthrough, where we now believe we're going to be able to create the first synthetic, self cleaning, dry adhesive. Many companies are interested in this.

In July, a study by the European Food Safety Agency pointed to the presence of residues of 365 different pesticides identified in fruit and vegetables consumed in Europe including 76 in cereals.

This Protocol is applicable to petroleum products coming under the Combined Nomenclature headings 2710, 2711, 2712 (paraffin wax and petroleum wax), ex 2713 (paraffin residues) and 2714 (shale wax), imported for use in the Member States.

C352 89) for a regulation on the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on certain products of plant origin including fruit and vegetables and amending Directive 76 895 EEC as regards procedural rules.

Among others, that proposal provided for the indication of the specific details referred to by the honourable Member, i.e. that the pesticide residues resulting from post harvest treatment must be clearly and precisely indicated on the product.

In an article in the journal of the American Chemical Society the Californian scientists have presented an adhesive composed of microfibers like hair that self clean from the dust during movement on a surface to always maintain a perfect adhesion.

The squatters, who had invaded 11 of the 13 floors of the building, the rest are inhabited took all the wiring and part of the water, painted the walls and left residues of all kinds, especially alcoholic beverage cans.

That is clear, and in this respect it is only logical for legislation on pesticide residues to be linked to their approval when the use of a pesticide in one country may make it impossible to sell products treated with pesticides in another country with different legislation.

The tests conducted on various materials such as glass, Teflon, and sandpaper have demonstrated that the new adhesive is ten times stronger than the paws of this reptile and at the same time comes off from walls easier explains Liming Dai, researcher at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Dayton.

I would add that Parliament's proposals or comments on the selection of a legal base have regularly been ignored. I can give two examples, which happen to be interrelated the directive on pesticide residues and the one that we are probably going to vote on Friday, on European approval of pesticides.

The Commission is convinced that this measure, together with existing regulations concerning prohibition of particularly dangerous products, concerning the residues of pesticides in agricultural products and foodstuffs and concerning drinking water, groundwater and surface water protection and other matters, will ensure a high level of human, animal and environment protection throughout the Community, as well as contribute to the realisation of other objectives of Community policy.