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Toxic Chemicals
REACH Workshop Report: Workshop on
Chemicals Management Policy — What is REACH all about?
January 2009
Pollution Probe and the Mining Association of Canada are
pleased to publish this report summarizing the presentations and
discussions of the Workshop on Chemicals Management Policy, held in
January 2009.
Governments and industry around the world are faced with
the challenge of managing the impacts of chemicals on the environment
and human health. The European Union (EU) has taken an innovative
approach to chemicals management with their regulation, REACH
(Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals).
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for a copy of the report.
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here for the executive summary
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française
Primer on Volatile Organic Compounds
October 2005
Pollution Probe is pleased to present this primer on Volatile Organic
Compounds (VOC) as an introduction to some of the toxic VOCs that we
encounter in everyday life. As with other Pollution primers, The Primer
on Volatile Organic Compounds has been designed as an educational
resource for people who want to understand this source of pollution and
then take action to protect themselves and their children. In addition,
the primer has been designed for use as an introduction to controlling
VOCs from small- and medium- sized businesses. There are many
opportunities in this sector to reduce VOC emissions and hence the
unnedessary exposure of employees and surrounding communities to these
pollutants.
Download Primer on Volatile Organic Compounds (1.4MB)
Toxic
Substances — Focus on Children Project: Developing a Canadian List of
Substances of Concern to Children's Health.
June 2004
Prepared by Canadian Environmental Law Association / Pollution Probe
This report is the primary finding of a 14-month
study conducted for the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and
Pollution Probe. It reviews the literature and gathers and analyzes dozens
of lists containing thousands of substances which are a concern to
children's health. These lists are created by regulatory agencies and
other organizations around the world, but they are rarely collated and
coordinated.
Download the full report in PDF format
(2MB)
Download the Executive Summary of this report in PDF format (226KB)
A Review of Canadian Food
Safety Policy and Its Effectiveness in Addressing Health Risks for
Canadians
November 2002
The goal of this report is to examine the food safety policy system in
Canada in order to determine whether it is effectively addressing existing
and emerging food safety hazards. This in-depth and far-reaching analysis
should be a valuable addition to the body of critical information needed
to help make policy decisions that will better protect the public from
food-based hazards.
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this report (242KB)
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a copy of this report.
Toxic
Chemicals Sunset: An Emerging Chemical Restriction Policy
Published
1995
An overview of the legislative framework and current activities
undertaken in five industrial countries: Germany, Japan, Sweden, Canada
and the U.S.A., to address the use of persistent toxic chemicals.
International efforts by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, the International Joint Commission and the United Nations
Environment Programme on sunsetting chemicals are also examined (63
pages).
Additive
Alert: What have they done to our food? A Consumer's Action Guide
Published
1994
This is the fourth edition to date - a comprehensive look at the additives
in and on our food. Includes current information on pesticide residues,
packaging chemicals and veterinary drugs (320 pages).
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a copy of this report.
Dressed
to Kill
Published
1994
A joint report published by Pollution Probe and Greenpeace to highlight
the availability of safe alternatives to the traditional dry cleaning
methods that use perchloroethylene. Discusses water-based technology as an
alternative to chemical solvents. Also presents a detailed discussion on
the need to sunset organochlorines and the need to address the obstacles
facing drycleaning operators wishing to employ water based alternatives
(40 pages).
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a copy of this report.
Economic Dimension on Sunsetting
Chemicals
Published 1993
A technical report reviewing the methodologies available to assess the
economic feasibility of sunsetting persistent toxic chemicals. Case
studies were undertaken on three persistent toxic chemicals: lead, DDT and
dioxin (259 pages).
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