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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management
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January 21, 2015 | Environmental Health Perspectives
BPA plastics chemical poses no health risk, says European watchdog.
In recent years plastic pollution in the ocean has become a significant environmental concern for governments, scientists, nongovernmental organizations, and members of the public worldwide. Now scientists are asking whether plastic entering the marine food chain can be a health risk to people.
January 20, 2015 | Eco-Business.com, Asia.
An opportunity for safer building materials.
Although ubiquitous in homes, offices, and schools, PVC is a toxic material that should be phased out from the building industry.
January 16, 2015 | The New York Times
Montreal Protocol averts threat of large increases in skin cancers
People who regularly drink from cans and plastic bottles may want to reconsider: A new study shows that a common chemical in the containers can seep into beverages and raise blood pressure within a few hours.
January 15, 2015 | The Globe and Mail
Big apple bans foam containers
Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada, accounting for more than a third of total workplace death claims approved last year and nearly a third since 1996, new national data obtained by The Globe and Mail show. The 368 death claims last year alone represent a higher number than fatalities from highway accidents, fires and chemical exposures combined.
January 15, 2015 | UNEP News Centre
EPA urges home radon testing/protect your family from lung cancer caused by exposure to radon in your home
The threat of large increases in skin cancers has been avoided due to the success of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in controlling ozone depletion, according to the newly published "Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion and its Interactions with Climate Change: 2014 Assessment" report, produced by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the Montreal Protocol, following its latest quadrennial assessment.
January 14, 2015 | The Guardian
More toxic chemicals found in oil and gas wastewater.
Nordic Council calls on EU to ban damaging compounds found in household products that cost millions due to their harmful impact on male reproductive health. The hormone-mimicking chemicals used routinely in toiletries, cosmetics, medicines, plastics and pesticides cause hundreds of millions of euros of damage to EU citizens every year, according to the first estimate of their economic impact.
January 12, 2015 | Daily Mail Online
New York City bans expanded polystyrene food containers, opens market to alternatives
New research has found that more than half of Britain's most popular rice products - including Kellogg's Rice Krispies and Smooth Baby Rice by Heinz - exceed proposed new EU limits for arsenic. While there are low levels of arsenic in most food and water, researchers are now concerned that arsenic can reach much higher levels in rice. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817542/More-half-rice-products-exceed-new-EU-limits-ARSENIC.html#ixzz3OgVKpqmA Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
January 12, 2015 | WHO Media Centre
BPA and 'BPA-free' alternative linked to fetal brain changes
Previously unrecognized health benefits could be realized from fast action to reduce climate change and its consequences. For example, changes in energy and transport policies could save millions of lives annually from diseases caused by high levels of air pollution. The right energy and transport policies could also reduce the burden of disease associated with physical inactivity and traffic injury.
January 9, 2015 | Science News
New EPA guidance would reduce use of lab animals and increase relevant acute toxicity data on pesticides
Electronic cigarettes, marketed as safer than regular cigarettes, deliver a cocktail of toxic chemicals including carcinogens into the lungs, new studies show. Using e-cigarettes may even make bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics, according to one study.
January 5, 2015 | Environmental Health News
Feeling old? It might be from heavy metal.
As concerns mount over people’s exposure to the plasticizer bisphenol A in everyday products, it’s also contaminating the air near manufacturing plants: U.S. companies emitted about 26 tons of the hormone-disrupting compound in 2013.
January 5, 2015 | UNEP News Centre
EPA Revised Chlorpyrifos Assessment Shows Risk to Workers
The recovery of the ozone layer - the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays - would come sooner if we were to fast-track the elimination of the production of the ozone-depleting substance (ODS) hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and manage other ODSs that remain in equipment, building walls and chemical stockpiles, according to the full release of a report by nearly 300 scientists from 36 countries.
January 5, 2015 | The Guardian
Climate Change: EPA seeks massive methane reductions from oil and gas sector
The growth in chemical production in the past 40 years has been nothing short of explosive, with global output of $171bn in 1970 (pdf) burgeoning to more than $4tn in 2010 (an increase of more than 2,000%). By 2050, the market is expected to expand further to more than $14tn (an increase of more than 250% from 2010), with the BRICS countries dominating and accounting for more than $6tn together ($4tn for China alone).
December 29, 2014 | New York Times
PCB contamination causes fish consumption advisory for catfish caught from Susquehanna River in Lancaster County
China plans to take more than 5 million aging vehicles off the roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone. Pollution has emerged as an urgent priority for China’s leaders as they try to reverse the damage done by decades of breakneck economic growth and head off public anger about the sorry state of the nation’s air, water and soil. In a wide-ranging action plan to cut emissions over the next two years, the Chinese cabinet, the State Council, said the country had already fallen behind in its pollution targets from 2011 to 2013 and was now having to step up its efforts. As many as 5.33 million so-called yellow label vehicles that fail to meet fuel standards will be eliminated this year.
December 22, 2014 | New York Times
New Study Links Air Pollution To Congenital Effects
Governments around the world are experimenting with issuing permits that allow industries to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, then restricting those permits to rein in carbon emissions.
December 11, 2014 | BBC News
Why Didn't Toxic Waste Cause a Cancer Epidemic, Like We Expected in the 1970s?
Councils must work to improve the monitoring of urban air quality after research suggested some UK workers were being exposed to "dangerous" pollution levels. Street cleaners and parking staff were among those most at risk.
December 11, 2014 | NBC News (New York)
Exposure to common household chemicals may cause IQ drop
Authorities probing several toxic material dump sites on Long Island said Tuesday that soil samples at a row of newly built homes for war veterans were contaminated with banned pesticides, hazardous metals and petroleum byproducts. The homes, on Veterans Way in Islandia, initially tested negative for asbestos, but Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said a new round of tests came back positive for the pesticides DDT and chlordane, petroleum byproducts and above-average levels several metals including cobalt, zinc, iron and lead.
December 11, 2014 | Science News
WHO targets implementation of new guidelines for indoor air quality
Whether trickling from cracked shale deep underground or gushing through an old-school well, wastewater from oil and gas production may carry two additional dangerous chemicals besides those previously known. High levels of ammonium, iodide can harm aquatic life, contaminate tap water.
December 8, 2014 | Asia News Network
Fast-Tracking Elimination of Production of Remaining Ozone-Depleting Substances Could Speed Up Ozone Layer Recovery by 11 Years
A bill that penalises those responsible for causing transboundary haze will be tabled in Parliament by the second half of this year, Singapore's Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said.According to the draft legislation, firms that have fires on land they own or manage that cause haze over Singapore can be deemed to have committed an offence, and fined up to S$300,000 (US$239,923). Those affected by the haze can also take up civil suits against these companies, whose representatives could be served notice when they enter Singapore. The proposed law comes after Singapore - and Southeast Asia - experienced record levels of pollution caused by forest fires in Riau last June.
December 8, 2014 | Lancaster Online
BPA in Cans and Plastic Bottles Linked to Quick Rise in Blood Pressure
The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a consumption warning for channel catfish longer than 20 inches. Samples of the fish showed unacceptable levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, often called PCBs. DEP recommends no more than one meal per month of channel catfish that are 20 inches or longer.
December 5, 2014 | Chemical & Engineering News
Asbestos revealed as Canada’s top cause of workplace death
The White House unveiled plans last week to reduce emissions of methane from the oil and gas industry by 40–45% through new EPA regulations. Methane emissions from this sector are projected to rise 25% by 2025, constraining White House international climate change policy objectives.
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