Risk assessment and monitoring of environmental chemicals

1. Risk assessment and monitoring of environmental chemicals February 16 to August 22 of 2004

2. Risk assessment and monitoring of environmental chemicals Final Report Alan Helios Escudero Uribe Mexico

3. Objectives of the course • To learn about risk assessment technology and impacts on human health and ecosystem • To learn about the principles and techniques used for monitoring environmental chemicals • To gain analytical techniques and skills in instrument, immunoassay and bioassay methods

4. Objectives of the course • Culture • Traditions • Places

5. Additional Objectives Analyze case studies of environmental risk assessment Identify the key data on the studies Optimize the information requested • Time • Cost Techniques for measure pollutants • Environment • Community

6. Institutes • JICA • JICE • Fukuyama University • Tokushima University • Hyogo plant Protection Association • HPTCAFF • HIPHES • Kobe University • HIPHES: Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences • HPTCAFF: Hyogo Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

7. Institutes • Horiba, Ltd. • Hitachi High Technologies Corp. • Cobelco Eco-Solutions Co., Ltd.

8. Institutes • HIPHES • HPTCAFF • Institute of Environmental Toxicology • Env. Health Science Lab. Sumimoto Chemical Co., Ltd. • National Institute for Minamata disease, MOE • Tokyo University • National Institute for environmental studies • Institute of environmental toxicology (Tsukuba) • National institute of advanced industrial science and technology • National Institute for Agro-Environmental Science • Testing Inspection Center, Osaka Pharmaceutical Association. • Kobe Quarentine Station • HIPHES: Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences • HPTCAFF: Hyogo Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

9. Return to Mexico

10. My principal activities • To prepare, conduct and assess the national policy on environment and natural resources (petroleum, electricity and rail ways). • To promote and encourage the sustainable exploitation of natural resources. • To promote and encourage the environmental responsibility of productive sectors. • To oversee the legislation compliance on environment and natural resources.

11. My principal activities (continuation) • To stop the projects with possible environmental and natural resources deterioration. • To guarantee the integrity and operability of the components of the environmental policy within a framework of institutional improvement. • To inform the society about environmental matters and projects using natural resources.

12. The most relevant topics improved by these training course • All the study cases analyzed • Chisso in Minamata • Ashio cooper mine • power plant of electricity • The lectures of specific pollutants in Japan and the limits of affectation in human health. • The practices in Laboratory, mainly for the analysis where an overlapping or masking of the target compound may be found.

13. Let’s go into matter ACTION PLAN

14. Action Plan • Request the qualitative and quantitative identification of toxic compounds presents in the working areas where new projects will be started. • Request identification of persistent toxic pollutants (presents in low concentration). • Make optional to the companies, to apply monitoring techniques to make faster or less expensive the analysis of PTS (with the respective justification).

15. Thank you very much But what happen withtraditions and Culture?

16. Wedding

17. Tea Ceremony

21. Suma

24. Domo arigato gozaimashita.