Interested in educating parents and professionals about children’s environmental health?

Please attend a strategy development session on the morning of Friday, September 16, 9 -12 at the school district office, 1135 Prospect St, Fredericton. Team 2B will be identifying priorities and next steps to address the education of parents and professionals and would love to have your ideas for discussion and you on board with their team!

Please respond to this email or call 433-6101 to register.

Thanks. Mary Ann

Vous souhaitez former les parents et les professionnels concernant la santé des enfants et l’environnement?

Veuillez participer à la séance de préparation d’une stratégie, vendredi matin le 16 septembre de 9 h à midi aux bureaux du district scolaire, situé au 1135, rue Prospect à Fredericton. L’équipe 2 b déterminera ses priorités et la prochaine étape consistera à s’occuper de la formation des parents et des professionnels. On aimerait obtenir vos idées pour les discussions et votre participation aux travaux de l’équipe!

Veuillez faire connaitre votre réponse et vous inscrire par courriel ou par téléphone au 433-6101.

Merci

Mary Ann

Update from Team Policy of the Children's Environmental Health Collaborative: Team Policy will soon be launching its outreach to policy-makers, both government and non-government. If you are interested in receiving a presentation, please contact the NBEN.

Exposure to BPA Has Been Underestimated, New MU Research Says

Results indicate BPA accumulates more rapidly within the body than previously thought, June 06, 2011

http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2011/0606-exposure-to-bpa-has-been-underestimated-new-mu-research-says/

Hi everyone – Paul Tukey of Safelawns is working with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment to proclaim May 6th 2011, which is the 20th anniversary of Hudson Quebec’s cosmetic pesticide bylaw, as Dr. June Irwin Lawn Pesticide Awareness Day. The wording of the proclamation is below. Dan has kindly agreed to give a quote for the press release – thanks, DanJ. They would like at least 100 signatories by Friday. Can you kindly send this to your local or provincial organization/networks, and ask them if they would like to sign on? I am thinking of the nurses and physicians groups, among others. Thanks, Kathryn

Here's the official wording of the proclamation and we're still awaiting quotes from CCS and CAPE to put into the general press release. We'd like to be able to send this out to the national media at 9 a.m. Monday, but will put it up on blogs etc. and any personal press contacts starting on Friday.

"We, the undersigned members of the North American health, environmental, landscape and farming communities, hereby proclaim Friday, May 6, 2011 as Dr. June Irwin Lawn Pesticide Awareness Day in honor of the pioneering doctor's leading role in passage of North America's lawn first pesticide ban in Hudson, Quebec, on May 6, 1991."

Any help you can offer in soliciting other signatories is great.

PT
Signatories as of noon Tuesday, April 26
Advocate Precautionary Principle, Sarasota, Fla.
Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Anchorage, Alaska
BC Pathways, Victoria, BC
Beyond Pesticides, Washington, D.C.
Canadian Cancer Society, Vancouver, Ca.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Toronto, Ont.
Citizens for a Green Camden, Camden, Maine
The Coalition of Organic Land Care Professionals, Seattle
EcoJustice, Toronto, Ca.
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Paonia, Co.
Environmental Health Fund, Jamaica Plain, Boston
Friends of Casco Bay, Portland, Maine
Farmworker Association of Florida, Apopka, Fla.
Galveston Baykeeper, Seabrook, Texas
Groundswell Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
Institute of the Environment, Ottawa, Ont.
Lawn Reform Coalition, Washington, D.C.
Leah Collective, Concord, N.H.
Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association, Unity, Maine
Manitoba Eco-Network, Winnipeg
Natural Resources Defense Council, New York
Ontario College of Family Physicians, Toronto
People’s Action for Threatened Habitats, Vancouver
Pesticide Action Network North America, San Francisco
Pesticide Free Zone, Kentfield, California
Pesticide Watch, Sacramento, California
Protect All Children’s Environment, Marion, N.C.
Rainfrog Amphibian Sanctuary, Roberts Creek, BC
Rachel Carson Council, Washington, D.C.
Safer Pest Control Project, Chicago, Ill.
The Sierra Club, Washington,D.C.

The SafeLawns Foundation, Newport, R.I.
Saskatchewan Environmental Society, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Stop Targeting Overuse of Pesticides, Victoria, BC
Toxics Action Center, Boston
Toxics Information Project, Providence, RI
Wildsight, Kimberley, BC

Paul J. Tukey, www.PaulTukey.com
Executive Producer, A Chemical Reaction, www.chemicalreactionmovie.com
National Spokesperson, www.safelawns.org
Associate Editor, MovieMaker magazine

Dear Colleagues,

Last summer, we notified you in advance of the August 2010 release by Statistics Canada of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) data on environmental chemicals in Canadians, as well as Health Canada's Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada. As you may recall, we informed you that the phthalate data, measured under the CHMS, were not ready for release at that time due to an ongoing data validation exercise by the analytical laboratory. That exercise has been completed and the laboratory is currently preparing a scientific journal article on their findings.

This note is to inform you that on April 1, 2011, Statistics Canada will provide notice in The Daily that the CHMS phthalate data will be made available through their Research Data Centres. Health Canada is planning to add these data as an update to its Report on Human Biomonitoring later this year, pending the laboratory's peer-reviewed publication.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Doug Haines (Doug.Haines@hc-sc.gc.ca; 613-952-2332).

For more information on the CHMS and biomonitoring, please visit the following website:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/contaminants/human-humaine/index-eng.php

Sincerely,

Beth Pieterson
Director General / Directrice générale
Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate / Direction des sciences de la santé environnementale et de la radioprotection
HECSB / DGSECC
AL 4908D
Health Canada / Santé Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9
Tel: 613-954-3859
E-mail: Beth.Pieterson@hc-sc.gc.ca

Madame, Monsieur,

L’été dernier, nous vous avons avisé de la publication, par Statistique Canada, des données sur les substances chimiques de l’environnement de l’Enquête canadienne sur les mesures de la santé (ECMS) en août 2010, ainsi que de la publication, par Santé Canada, du Rapport sur la biosurveillance humaine des substances chimiques de l’environnement au Canada. Vous vous en souviendrez peut-être, nous vous avions informé que les données sur le phtalate, mesurées dans le cadre de l’ECMS, n’étaient pas prêtes aux fins de publication en raison d’un exercice continu de validation des données par le laboratoire d’analyse. Cet exercice a été terminé et le laboratoire prépare actuellement un article sur ses conclusions à l’intention d’une revue scientifique.

La présente a pour but de vous aviser que le 1er avril 2011, Statistique Canada publiera, dans Le Quotidien, un avis indiquant que les données sur le phtalate de l’ECMS seront disponibles par l’entremise des Centres de données de recherche. Santé Canada compte ajouter ces données à la mise à jour de son Rapport sur la biosurveillance humaine plus tard cette année, en attendant la publication de l’article du laboratoire, qui sera revu par des pairs.

Si vous avez des questions, n’hésitez pas à communiquer avec Doug Haines (Doug.Haines@hc-sc.gc.ca; 613-952-2332).

Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements sur l'ECMS, veuillez consulter le site Web suivant :
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/contaminants/human-humaine/index-fra.php

Je vous prie d’accepter, Madame, Monsieur, l’expression de nos sentiments distingués.

Beth Pieterson
Director General / Directrice générale
Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate / Direction des sciences de la santé environnementale et de la radioprotection
HECSB / DGSECC
AL 4908D
Health Canada / Santé Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9
Tel: 613-954-3859
E-mail: Beth.Pieterson@hc-sc.gc.ca