RETRACTED: Aerobic degradation of 4-nitroaniline (4-NA) via novel degradation intermediates by Rhodococcus sp. strain FK48

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors because of concerns about the validity of the results reported in this publication. Arising from a complaint by a third party questioning the veracity of the data in this paper an Official Committee of the Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, India was formed to examine the circumstances of this publication. During the course of its investigation the Committee determined that a number of experiments had not actually been conducted to generate the associated data. This represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system and a clear violation of publishing ethics. All of the authors of the paper have asked that the paper be retracted.Publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an important building-block in the development of science. Elsevier has defined policies and ethical guidelines that have to be obeyed by authors and editors, and Elsevier takes its duties of guardianship over the scholarly record extremely seriously. Upon investigation, the Editors of the Journal of Hazardous Materials found the above concerns to be sufficiently compelling that they have decided that this paper should be retracted.