Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #122032

Keith Chanon, Children’s Health and Pollutants Release and Transfer Register, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), 999 Place, Baltimore, MD 99999, 999-999-9999, kchanon@cec.org

Over the past ten years, the CEC has facilitated cooperative action to collect and evaluate information on chemicals in North America in order to help prevent or reduce the adverse effects of pollution on human and ecosystem health. The CEC encourages technical cooperation between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., promotes pollution prevention techniques and strategies; recommends appropriate limits for specific pollutants, taking into account differences in ecosystems; recommends approaches for the comparability of techniques and methodologies for data gathering and analysis, data management, and electronic data communications; and promotes access to publicly available information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities of each country.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the potential environmental health issues associated with the NAFTA and other trade agreements and institutional arrangements such as the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) for addressing these issues.
• Understand the challenges of managing chemicals in North America (chemicals in commerce, movement of POPs, monitoring) and trilateral approaches that are being taken.
• Learn about indicators of children's health and the environment in North America that are under development.
• Understand the role and purpose of pollutant release and transfer registries, the North American registry and how it can be applied to tracking children's health issues.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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