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Reports
on PCBs pollution in your country, Does your government
carry out tests to monitor PCB pollution in the
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Canada |
Storage sites are
licensed and inspected regularly by government inspectors,
Enforcement Officers, as regulated by the Environmental
Protection Act Part 10 - 216.
Environment Canada measures POPs at the Alert Global
Atmospheric Watch (Alert, Nunavut).
Provincial and municipal environment, agriculture,
fisheries and health inspectors, in addition to
emergency response personnel routinely inspect PCB
equipment.
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| Australia |
Yes; monitoring
of food, breastmilk, some environmental media; no
dedicated program |
| Taiwan |
National Institute
of Environmental Analysis, TEPA,Continued monitoring
its status of distribution under specific environmental
medium distribution surveys, such as river sediment
and fish sampling since 1993.Consolidating pertinent
research findings in the past for developing a POP
environmental distribution database. |
| Malaysia |
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| Japan |
YES.
The Ministry of Environment monitors the PCBs pollution
in the air, water, sediment, and wild animals. The
information is available on the HP below.
http://www.env.go.jp/en/topic/pops/Appendix/00report/00contents.htm
In November 2002, The Ministry of Environment held
"East Asia POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants)
Monitoring Workshop" in aim to take leadership in
POPs monitoring in this region. Specialists or Government
officials of Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Cambodia,
Singapore, China, Philippines, Thai, Vietnam, and
Malaysia participated in this workshop. Also, NGO
(WWF) took part as an observer. |
| Korea |
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| Hong Kong |
- |
| China |
Sometimes tests
for studing. |
| Indonesia |
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