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| Heal Toxics is a member of the International POPs Elimination Network |
| This website provides resources on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) such as pesticides, dioxins, PCBs, and wastes. Valuable examples of community monitoring of health and environmental impacts of toxic chemicals are also furnished. Further, there is an entire section devoted to chemical safety in its proper socio-political context or in relation to issues such as globalization and people's empowerment. |
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HEAL Toxics has been formed to support and help facilitate effective engagement by public interest NGOs in global, regional and national efforts to promote chemical safety. Current members include PAN Philippines, Health Action For Human Rights, AGHAM (Science for the People), GAIA Phils., Greenpeace Phils., People’s Task Force for Bases Clean-up, Health Care Without Harm Philippines, Center for Environmental Concerns, Earth Island Institute, Youth Against Toxics, Fisherfolk Against Toxics, Health Alliance for Democracy, and RESIST (Resistance and Solidarity Against Agrochemical TNCs). This site will also be seen at http://www.healtoxics.org in the near future. As of now news updates and site completion is being made. Do enjoy your visit here for a while. |
In The News:
| In commemoration of World No Pesticide Day: HEAL Toxics calls for Paraquat Ban |
| 12/03/03
- HEAL Toxics urged DA (Department of Agriculture) and FPA (Fertilizer
and Pesticide Authority) officials to immediately enforce a ban
of Paraquat, the most highly toxic yet widely used herbicide in
the Third World.
“It is about time the
DA and FPA fulfill its task of ensuring that people and environment
are free from extensive harm caused by agro-chemicals banned in
more developed countries,” said Dr. Romeo Quijano, President
of HEAL Toxics and a known toxicologist from University of the Philippines
Manila. |
| Angry tears as MPs hear of Agent Orange's awful legacy (by New Zealand Herald) |
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11/26/03 - In Wayne
Chester's mind, the sickly stink of diesel is forever connected
to the destroyed jungles of Vietnam.
"I'll never forget the smell," the former soldier said yesterday after giving evidence on Agent Orange. |
| 11/26/03 - Japan
is planning to build a disposal facility for Toxic polychlorinated
biphenyls, or PCBs, at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Onna, Okinawa.
About 1,800 drums of PCB waste
— about 300 tons — discovered when a former U.S. communications
site in the city was returned in 1996 |
11/25/03 - A report
on bee-deaths, published by the French Comité Scientifique
et Technique (CST), shows that the use of the pesticide GAUCHO is
jointly responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands colonies
of bees. Environmental and beekeeper unions are calling for a ban
on the agricultural toxin. |
| 11/15/03 - Traces
of a banned and highly toxic insecticide that has never been used
or manufactured in Japan have been found in animals such as crows
and monkeys in the eastern part of the country, the Environment
Ministry said.
The insecticide had been used in the United States until the 1970s but Japan has never manufactured nor imported it. |
11/07/03 - Bangkok–
The Fourth session of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety
(Forum IV) concluded its one week session with substantive progress
made to achieve sound global management of chemical safety. |
| 11/03/03- An Australian cigarette
company knew for more than 20 years that its tobacco contained high
levels of DDT and other dangerous pesticides, industry documents reveal.
The Federal Government was also aware that
pesticide levels far |
| Armenia
has ratified the Stockholm Convention (by IPEN) |
| 10/29/03- Armenia ratified the Stockholm Convention on October 22, 2003. The total number of Parties to the Convetion is now 40 plus France and Armenia, which both have ratified the Convention in October 2003 but not yet delivered it to the Secretariat of the Convention. |
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