Translation of "division des contaminants environnementaux " (French → English) :

Environmental Contaminants Division

What on Earth?: First National Symposium on Environmental Contaminants and the Implications for Child Health

State of knowledge report of environmental contaminants and human health in the Great Lakes basin

Division of Technology and Contaminated Sites

Division of Technology and Contaminated Sites

Establish guidelines to reduce and eliminate exposure of children to environmental contaminants, including an integrated environmental contaminant reduction program;

Despite children's extensive and heightened vulnerability to environmental contaminants, there is currently no coherent risk assessment and management strategy that ensures children grow up safe from exposure to environmental contaminants, and in particular to pesticides.

How much of that is caused by environmental factors and environmental contaminants?

in respect of the Court of Auditors' fourth recommendation, the Commission is requested to assist the Member States with the development, implementation and evaluation of the national monitoring and control plans; is of the opinion that, with due consideration for the principle of subsidiarity, a basic set of analyses should be established in order to cover the detection of common categories of hormonal residue (e.g. anabolics) and/or environmental contaminants (dioxins, heavy metals), etc., and that their application should be mandatory; considers that, as a first step, efforts could be made to raise awareness through the ‘Better trai ...[+++]ning for safer food’ programme (BTSF) in order to raise awareness of this issue in the competent authorities of the Member States; considers that monitoring of compliance with provisions on charges should be a further aim;