Translation of "nocif pour l'environnement " (French → English) :

The Sixth Community Environment Action Programme adopted by Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2002 establishes the need to reduce pollution to levels which minimise harmful effects on human health, paying particular attention to sensitive populations, and the environment as a whole, to improve the monitoring and assessment of air quality including the deposition of pollutants and to provide information to the public.

According to EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas: “There is growing concern about the environmental impacts of lubricants, so the advantages of having EU-wide criteria to encourage the market for more environmentally benign lubricants are clear.

To show that the Canadian government, the Government of Ontario, and other credible organizations agree that DDT, hexachlorobenzene, and other pesticides are carcinogens and cause other terrible illnesses, we have the following: a description from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, a federal government agency, of the harmful effects of DDT and benzene, including the fact that they are carcinogens; an article quoting Johanne Gélinas, the federal environment commissioner, to the effect that pesticides have been linked to lung disease, reproductive problems, birth defects, cancers, developmental disorders, allergic rea ...[+++]ctions, lowered resistance to diseases, and other illnesses; an article from Ontario showing that Worker's Compensation and the occupational health clinics for Ontario agree that benzene, to which we were exposed, is a known carcinogen; a position paper for the Canadian Associationof Physicians for the Environment indicating the biological effects of DDT exposure; a recent release from the Ontario College of Family Physicians indicating that pesticides are too harmful to use in any form and that exposure to pesticides causes brain cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, and leukemia, among many other acute illnesses; and a list from OHIP that indicates the 53 different diseases and disorders with which I have been diagnosed in a seven-year period from 1987 to 1994 (1540) Further, to indicate that the Canadian army exposed troops to DDT, benzene hexacholoride, and other pesticides, I have the following: a copy of four pages from the Canadian Military Handbook of Army Health, issued in 1950, indicating that Canadian soldiers and their clothing should be sprayed with DDT and benzene hexacholoride, clearly indicating exposure; a letter from Paul Marsden, archivist for the military section of the government archives division, stating that DDT was used as a pesticide on soldiers while serving in Korea; a letter fro ...

The purpose of the environmental risk assessment is to assess the potential harmful effects, which the use of the product may cause to the environment and to identify any precautionary measures, which may be necessary to reduce such risks.

An environmental risk assessment shall be performed to assess the potential harmful effects, which the use of the veterinary medicinal product may cause to the environment and to identify the risk of such effects.

Similarly, if we consider the products which are going to form the basis of our prosperity into the next century, it is quite clear that the markets for polluting cars, noisy machinery and poisonous chemicals are going to be diminishing markets, while the growing markets, particularly in our most prosperous and environmentally conscious trading partners, the USA and Japan, are going to be for clean products based on clean technology".