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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am in wholehearted agreement. Thank you for the reminder to everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tom H<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gilliam, Allen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shield, Margaret; DeBiasi, Deborah (DEQ); pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Pharmwaste] 'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the sad story Margaret,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Not wishing to offend others’ religious beliefs (and I’m no Bible totin or even Sunday Christian), but 1 Timothy 6:10 (New Living Translation [had to look it
up]) says, “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.” seems to be applying itself in mother earth’s demise in so many facets of our environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Absolutely NO offense intended to anyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Allen g<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Shield, Margaret [<a href="mailto:Margaret.Shield@kingcounty.gov">mailto:Margaret.Shield@kingcounty.gov</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 04, 2015 5:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gilliam, Allen; DeBiasi, Deborah (DEQ); <a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us">
pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Pharmwaste] 'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">The Precautionary Principle is a strategy that must then be carried out in policies, laws, regulations. It’s use by the EU has been under attack with
renewed vigor. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Here’s one perspective on why:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase">25 August 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Chemical Industry using TTIP ‘to attack the precautionary principle’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Trade deal presents long-awaited opportunities for fresh assaults on regulation writes Axel
Singhofen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase">health and environment advisor Greens/EFA group<br>
</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Republished with the kind permission of
<a href="http://chemicalwatch.com/"><span style="color:windowtext">Chemical Watch</span></a>.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">CW. Global Business Briefing, July/August 2014 / Europe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">The last 12 months have seen a surge of attacks against the EU’s precautionary principle. Some <u><a href="http://www.lexxion.de/pdf/ejrr/12-16-12.04.438_ejrr_2013_04.pdf010.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext">law
firms</span></a> </u>consider it as a potential obstacle to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and UK Conservative MEP <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303947904579336611208924306?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303947904579336611208924306.html"><span style="color:windowtext">Julie
Girling </span></a>considers that “the EU’s expanding embrace of `precautionary’ regulation... may well be the biggest threat” to an agreement being signed off. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Last October, 12 <a href="http://www.riskforum.eu/uploads/2/5/7/1/25710097/erf_communication_12.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext">CEOs</span></a> of
mainly chemical companies wrote to the presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament, calling for the formal adoption of an “innovation principle” as a counterbalance to “precautionary legislation”, because they were concerned that “the necessary
balance of precaution and proportion is increasingly being replaced by a simple reliance on the precautionary principle and the avoidance of technological risk. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Some academics even conjure up a “precautionary impasse in Europe”, claim an “apparent gap
between evidence-based analysis and expert-informed recommendations, and policy decisions that can seem disconnected from both”, and conclude there is “a necessity for change in light of the impracticability of a status quo that leads to scattered ill-thought
out bans”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Read more at….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.ttip2014.eu/blog-detail/blog/precautionary%20principle%20TTIP.html">http://www.ttip2014.eu/blog-detail/blog/precautionary%20principle%20TTIP.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Margaret Shield PhD, Policy Liaison<br>
Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County<br>
desk 206-477-6238 cell 206-265-9732 <br>
<i>Local Governments for Health and the Environment - <a href="http://www.lhwmp.org">
<span style="font-style:normal">www.lhwmp.org</span></a><br>
</i></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a> [<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gilliam, Allen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DeBiasi, Deborah (DEQ); <a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us">
pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Pharmwaste] 'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sounds like something that typically happens with our policy makers on the hill…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Does anyone practice the Precautionary Principal anymore? And didn’t I read the EU was decades ahead of the U.S. in its use?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Allen g<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a> [<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>DeBiasi, Deborah (DEQ)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 04, 2015 2:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us">pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] 'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/02/suppressed-eu-report-could-have-banned-pesticides-worth-billions">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/02/suppressed-eu-report-could-have-banned-pesticides-worth-billions</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web";color:#333333">'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web";color:black">Science paper recommended ways of identifying hormone-mimicking chemicals in pesticides linked to foetal abnormalities, genital mutations,
infertility and other diseases including cancer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.8pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web";color:black">As many as 31 pesticides with a value running into billions of pounds could have been banned because of potential health risks,
if a blocked EU paper on hormone-mimicking chemicals had been acted upon, the Guardian has learned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.8pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web";color:black">The science paper, seen by the Guardian, recommends ways of identifying and categorising the endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
that scientists link to a rise in foetal abnormalities, genital mutations, infertility, and adverse health effects ranging from cancer to IQ loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web";color:black">Commission sources say that the paper was buried by top EU officials under pressure from big chemical firms which use EDCs in toiletries, plastics and cosmetics,
despite an annual health cost that studies peg at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/02/toiletries-health-impact-could-cost-millions-report-says">
<span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">hundreds of millions of euros</span></a>. (Long article – read the rest at the site above)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Deborah L. DeBiasi</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Email: <a href="mailto:Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov">Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</a></span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red"><br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">WEB site address: <a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/">
www.deq.virginia.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Virginia Department of Environmental Quality</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Office of Water Permits </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Industrial Pretreatment/Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Program</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PPCPs, EDCs, and Microconstituents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx">http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Mail: P.O. Box 1105, Richmond, VA 23218</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Location: 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PH: 804-698-4028 FAX: 804-698-4032<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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