Toxic nation

The Toxic Nation report calls on the Government of Canada to acknowledge the research and Regulate toxic chemicals in consumer products: policy initiatives of other jurisdictions, and to act to ensure that Canadians receive at least the same level of protection against ·Expand CEPA to regulate toxic chemicals that may be toxic chemicals as Europeans and Americans. [...] Health Canada and 8 ENVIRONMENTAL I DEFENCE A REPORT ON POLLUTION IN CANADIANS Environment Canada are in the midst of a lengthy process to cate- The burden of proof must be shifted to industry to prove that a gorize those 23,000 chemicals (which make up the Domestic chemical is safe before it is permitted to enter, or continue to be Substances List) by 2006 and to select chemicals of greatest con- [...] The CEPA Review is an opportu- CEPA's mandatory five-year review is an opportunity to address nity to update the regulation of chemicals in Canada through the shortcomings in Canada's approach to the regulation of toxic amendments that follow the precedents set by REACH and the chemicals. [...] The chemicals included in the analyses were selected on the basis Volunteers were selected to represent the diversity of the Canadian of several considerations (Appendix 2): population, including men and women from a variety of geograph- ic locations, ethnicities, ages and occupations. [...] The analyses ·Once the above considerations were taken into required to determine the presence and concentration of the account, the final set of chemicals was determined by chemicals in the samples were complex, and no single lab had the assessing technical feasibility and the cost of testing.