Traduction de «Toxic Chemicals Program » (Anglais → Français) :

Commercial/Toxic Chemicals Program

National Coordinating Committee for the Toxic Chemicals Program

poisonous material | poisonous substance | toxic chemical | toxic substance | toxicant

International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals | IRPTC [Abbr.]

chemical toxicity | studies of toxicity | study of adverse effects of chemicals | toxicology

The entire Liberal government and its cabinet share this disgrace: the finance minister for a program review that cancelled environment as a priority, the industry minister for putting business interests ahead of ecosystem protection, and the health minister for refusing to identify toxic chemicals which poison Canada's children.

It was not a holistic approach where a workplace has the responsibility for devising a pollution prevention program for any and every toxic chemical that happens to be used in the workplace.

(Return tabled) Question No. 845 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to children’s health and the environment: (a) what action has the government undertaken to integrate children’s environmental health into existing public health programs; (b) what specific action is the government undertaking to advocate for the consideration and assessment of hazardous environmental influences on children’s health and development, (i) in Canada, (ii) internationally; (c) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise the political profile of children’s environmental health, (i) locally, (ii) regionally, (iii) nationally; (d) in relation to i ...[+++]ts contaminated sites, (i) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise awareness about children’s environmental health, (ii) what are all contaminated sites where action has been taken to raise awareness, (iii) what was the risk; (iv) what was the action taken; (e) what are all government activities focused on children’s environmental health; (f) what are all existing government activities focused on prevention of environmental exposures aimed at protecting children's health; (g) what governmental action has been undertaken to prevent (i) pre-conception, prenatal, and childhood exposures, (ii) air, consumer products, food, soil/dust, water, and other physical environmental exposures, (iii) biological, chemical, and physical hazards; (h) how has the government taken children's vulnerabilities into account in developing environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards; (i) what targeted environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards have already been put in place to protect children's health, and what policies, regulations, and standards are currently under consideration; (j) what action is being undertaken by the government to measure the extent to which pregnant women and their babies are exposed to common environmental chemicals, and what health risks, if any, are associated with th ...

The centres and networks funded by the Women's Health Contribution Program provided policy input to federal government departments on a broad range of women's health issues, including: the women's health implications of the federal government's regulation of toxic chemicals; the hypersexualization of girls; the intergenerational legacy of residential schools for aboriginal women and their families; the need for trauma-informed counselling for women with addictions; and a working guide for conducting sex- and g ...[+++]ender-based analysis in health research.