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Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Sound Management of Chemicals
Initiative
Updates on Current Activities
2008
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New Direction
This new direction focuses on 4 areas:
1. Establish a foundation for chemicals management across North America
2. Develop and implement a sustainable regional approach to monitoring
3. Reduce the risk from chemicals of mutual concern to North American
4. Improve environmental performance of sectors
• Improve overall Outreach and Engagement
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Establishing a FoundationSMOC
Mexican chemicals inventory– Consideration of Canadian and USA systems– Strategic team in place– Gaps analysis, criteria development– Partner with UK support
• Links to Leaders Summit, Montebello– Security and Prosperity Partnership
• Chemicals management initiative
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Establishing a Foundation EM&A
• Preparation of guidance document for trilateral bio-monitoring exercises– Sampling, analysis, data management– Inter-laboratory verification
• QA/QC exercises for blood POPs analysis– Build on 2006 initiative
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Sustainable Regional Monitoring
• Focus on compatible, comparable information and sustainable networks– Report on trilateral monitoring initiatives– Grey Literature Synthesis report– PRONAME in Mexico
• Tri-national Blood Biomonitoring report
• NARAP assessment report
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Sustainable Regional Monitoring
• Improving ability/building capacity to monitor in a comparable and reliable manner and to assess impacts;
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control;– Sampling/Chemical analysis and data reporting– Consistency, validity and comparability
• Help advance the Parties’ shared international objectives, – SAICM and SPP.– OECD, GRULAC, UNEP
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Reducing Risk of Chemicals of Mutual Concern - SMOC
• NARAPs continue to be implemented–mercury–lindane
• Dioxins/Furans/HCB transition–from NARAP to Strategic Initiative–Implementation on-going
• PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE’s)
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Mercury Action Plan• Reassess priorities matrix and path forward
• Closure of NARAP in 2010
• Mexican products inventory completed 2008
• Linkage to UNEP partnership initiative
• Phase 3 of a project to reduce exposure from products in hospitals in Mexico,
• support project to speciate mercury at high level sites in Mexico
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Lindane and Other HCH Isomers
• Approved by Council, November 2006
• Implementation matrix priorities developed– Workshop on alternatives completed– Agricultural registrations ending– Inventories and current pharmaceutical uses
• Lindane nominated to POP’s Convention• Dietary intake in Mexico
– LifeLine™ project training materials – Lindane and Isomers in dairy products study
• NARAP closure proposed for 2016
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Dioxins, Furans, HCB
• Transition - NARAP format to Strategic Program– Final version in fall 2008
• Air monitoring network– 9 sites in Mexico– Samplers from Canada– Operator training and Analysis by USA
• Workshop: emission factors; sampling/analysis– April 15, 17, 18, 2008– Team meeting April 16
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Dioxins, Furans, HCB
• Blood samples (serum) in Mexico– Part of blood biomonitoring work
• Values of TEQ appear to be about ½ of NHANES
• Risk assessment workshop– Next week, trainers from Canada
• Modelling workshop– Atmospheric modelling of Stockholm chemicals
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Reducing Risks of Chemicals of Mutual Concern through EM&A
• Mercury project : – consolidation of several fish tissue data sets– Assessing risk of exposure,
• Lake Zapotlán watershed, Mexico
• Dioxins and furans: – training operators– emissions modeling workshop
• Lindane monitoring project: – dairy products
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Reducing Risks of Chemicals of Mutual Concern
• PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE’s)– Used as flame retardants– Concern regarding persistence and presence
in people and the environment– Three main mixtures: penta, octa, deca
• Penta and octa production ceased, and proposed for addition to Stockholm
• Efforts ongoing in Canada/USA on deca
– Magnitude of issue to be determined in Mexico
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Improving Sectoral Performance
• Electronics Sector– Linkage to trade– Two studies completed
• Needs of SME’s re: Chemical regulatory agenda• Improved environmental design/waste management
– Path forward based on horizontal integration• Discussion among principles on options for aligning
with PRTR, Trade & Environment
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Outreach and Engagement
• SMOC WG has expressed a desire for more stakeholder involvement– Mechanisms and options to be elaborated– Greater communication– Greater feedback
• communication with various government agencies
• North American Chemicals Conference – Under consideration for 2009
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Thank You
Merci
Gracias