NGO Comments on the draft of Canada’s Great Lakes Strategy for PFOS, PFOA and LC-PFCAs Risk Management

May 26, 2021
Law Reform, Publications
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), chemicals, chemicals management, consumer products, drinking water, endocrine disruption, environmental health, great lakes, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA), industrial emissions, international, non-chemical alternatives, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), PFAS/PFOA/PFOS, polluter pays principle, pollution, pollution prevention, public participation, reproductive and developmental toxicants, right to healthy environment, right-to-know, source water protection, substitution, toxic substances, virtual elimination, water quality

A submission by 27 non-governmental organizations (updated as of June 1, 2021) in response to the draft of Canada’s Great Lakes Strategy for PFOS, PFOA and LC-PFCAs Risk Management (draft Strategy) released on April 26, 2021. This submission was originally submitted May 26, 2021. There are no changes to the commentary and recommendations submitted on May 26, 2021 but it provides an update to the list of supporting organizations (updated as of June 1, 2021)

Author(s): Prepared by Olga Speranskaya, Health Environment Justice Support with the Toxics-Free Great Lakes Binational Network

Date: May 26, 2021 (updated list of NGOs supporting the submission June 1, 2021)

To download a pdf. version please click the following link: NGO_response_to_Canada_Great_Lakes_Strategy_on_PFOS_PFOA_LCPFCAs_May_26_2021

NGO Comments on the draft of Canada’s Great Lakes Strategy for PFOS, PFOA and LC-PFCAs Risk Management

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