Toxics Reduction Strategy using the Precautionary Principle.

City of Portland and Multnomah County Toxics Resolution

Resolution Report: Making the Case for a Toxic Reduction Strategy and Portland and Multnomah County

April 2004 Precautionary Principle Workshop Presentations

Toxicology 101, Ted Schettler MD, MPH, SEHN

"The Precautionary Principle", Carolyn Raffensperger JD, Dr. Schettler.SEHN

"Precaution and the Economy", Joshua Skov, Research Director -Good Company

"Precautionary Principle – From Vision Statement to Practical Policy", Jared Blumenfeld & Debbie Raphael, San Francisco Office of Environmental

Also view the workshop brochure, workshop agenda, and resource guide

Presentations

Sustainability through Toxics Reduction in Local Government, Presentation to League of Oregon Cities, September, 2007

Reports and Resources

Bay Area Working Group on the Precautionary Principle:

Debating the Precautionary Principle by Nancy Meyers, SEHN

The Environmental Health of Multnomah County”, Multnomah County Health Department

The Faroes statement: Human health effects of developmental exposure to environmental toxicants

A Policy Framework for Adopting the Precautionary Principle, City of Seattle

The Precautionary Principle and the City and County of San Francisco

Pricing the Priceless: Cost Benefit Analysis of Environmental Protection

Proposal Strategy to Continually Reduce Persistent, Bioaccumulative Toxins (PBT’s) in Washington State, Washington State Department of Ecology

Prospering With Precaution Tufts University

The Toxic Gap,” Oregon Environmental Council:

Links

The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow

BE SAFE campaign by CHEJ

California Safe Schools

Science and Environmental Health Network

European Union's REACH legislation, 2007

The REACH Regulation gives greater responsibility to industry to manage the risks from chemicals and to provide safety information on the substances. Manufacturers and importers will be required to gather information on the properties of their substances, which will help them manage them safely, and to register the information in a central database. The European Chemicals Agency will act as the central point in the REACH system: it will run the databases necessary to operate the system, co-ordinate the in-depth evaluation of suspicious chemicals and run a public database in which consumers and professionals can find hazard information.

San Francisco Precautionary Principle Ordinance,

In 2003 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted the precautionary principle as city and county policy.

City of Boston Dioxin Resolution, 2003

The resolution directs the City Purchasing Department and other City departments to deselect "products that release dioxin during manufacture and/or disposal" wherever possible when making procurement decisions. Within one year, City departments are directed to develop an Implementation Plan complete within dioxin reduction targets "for the purchase of products on behalf of City departments, offices, and agencies", and are directed to "achieve" the Implementation Plan within an additional six months.

California Flame Retardants Ban, 2003

California bans flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDE's. The chemicals, developed in the 1960's, are found in the plastics and foams used in furniture and electronic equipment. The ban will start in 2008, a compromise date set by the chemical industry and California state legislators.

International POP’s (Persistent Organic Pollutants) Treaty and the Stockholm Convention, 2001:

Participating governments agree to take actions to reduce or eliminate the production, use, and/or release of certain of these pollutants.