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• Impacts on certain populations, especially children, women, the
undernourished
Living in substandard conditions, often undernourished, and typically with poor
health status, they are also more vulnerable to environmental chemical insults.
Simply put, children living in these impoverished countries are most vulnerable to
high levels of exposure and harmful effects of POPs.”
While these relate to indicators for poverty or education, tracing and quantifying
the links to chemical safety may be quite difficult.
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases: Use of
chemicals can very significantly contribute to reducing the disease burden.
For instance, the strategies to control malaria include indoor residual
spraying with pesticides, including DDT. While this may be important for
the immediate protection of health of the people concerned, it may have
long-term effects at large distances, such as reduced fertility in wildlife.
Careful balances between benefits and risks have been sought in
international agreements.
5.0 WHERE ARE THE BOTTLENECKS IN LINKING PESTICIDE
USE AND NSGRP, VISION 2025 AND MDGS?
The NSGRP, Vision 2025 and MDGs are very general and overriding and it is
difficult to see the links between them and safe pesticide use or chemical safety
in general. Thus, national chemical safety or pesticide use and control planners
tend to look at their activity in isolation and not identifying synergies with other
areas of chemical safety or pesticide use and control. For instance, legislation,
national committees or data bases may be proposed separately for industrial and
consumer chemicals, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, contaminated sites, chemical
hazard information or monitoring while some of these might be combined. For
example, what is the link the National Steering Committee established under the
Industrial and Consumer Chemicals Act (2004) and under the Enabling Activities
for the Implementation of POPS there is a National Steering Committee. Are
these the same? If how much do they interact? Do they have joint sessions?
Several similar examples may be cited.
Also, national sector planners or politicians tend to look at one sector at a time
and miss that chemical safety issues occur over a broad range of sectors, having
a combined impact far beyond the impact for any one sector. For instance,
implementation of conventions may be seen separately for each convention while
there are synergies to greater extent. They may also fail to assess the full picture
with chemicals promoting as well as counteracting national development goals.
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