inclusion of the substance Ensuring transparency and access to environmental support one or more of the information empowers communities to make informed objectives of the NPRI? decisions and advocate for their health and safety and [including] provides critical information about facilities in their • To improve public communities that are reporting to the NPRI. [...] It is particularly Reporting on PFAS under important to address fluoropolymers as PFAS given that NPRI should be these substances are important throughout their lifecycle, comprehensive to account they are key substances in the production of some PFAS for the life cycle of PFAS and can also be precursors for transformation to other including those PFAS that PFAS released into the environment as we. [...] 7) Use of Materials ENGO Comment ENGO Recommendation Safety Data Sheet to 19: determine presence of Safety data sheets can be utilized within the supply chain PFAS to show hazardous chemicals that are used in the ECCC should communicate manufacturing of products, and thus potentially present in to Health Canada on the the releases into the workplace or the environment. [...] 8) Specific timelines ENGO Comment ENGO Recommendation required to: 20: ● Expand approach for The consultation document outlined the need to consider class of PFAS; and adding other PFAS substances for reporting to NPRI, Require the addition of other ● add PFAS considering the results of the Section 71 survey to be PFAS substances for substances for completed by January 2025. [...] This denies the government and the public be expanded to require important information on the facilities responsible for reporters to report on the distributing toxics that will eventually be released to the NPRI substances that leave environment during use, during disposal, treatment, or their facility as a product or recycling of the product.
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