Location: Southern portion of Luzon Land Area : 4,692,410 hectares

1. COUNTRY REPORT-PhilippinesCORAZON Z. VIDADDepartment of HealthCenter for Health Development for CALABARZONPhilippines

2. REGIONAL PROFILE Location: Southern portion of Luzon Land Area : 4,692,410 hectares Topography: flat coastal areas, upland interior areas of slightly moderate or undulating plains, hills and mountains Provinces: CAVITE, LAGUNA, BATANGAS, RIZAL , QUEZON (CALABARZON) IVA Cities: 10 Municipalities: 132 Barangay: 4160 Population : 15% of the 84.6 M

3. RISK ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS

4. MY JOB Engineer IV (Regional Sanitary Engineer)

5. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM • Drinking Water Quality • Establish a scheme of monitoring the water quality of different water sources • Private water concessionaires • Water Refilling Stations • Still working on the monitoring program for the water districts and individual private water operators

6. Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) • Ensure the implementation of HCWM in hospitals through coordination and collaboration with Licensing and regulation unit of CHD-IVA and local government units • Technical assistance in the preparation of HCWM • Monitoring on the implementation of their HCWM plan

7. Technical Assistance • to other national government agencies • Manila Bay Environmental Management Project • Multi-Sectoral Forest Protection Committee • Promotion of Family Planning program to upland communities to prevent continuous degradation of forests

8. To local government units Capability building of sanitary inspectors Responds to outbreak of any disease/incidents that endangers the human lives Gives recommendation to the Secretary of Health the sites for presidential proclamation Recommends the issuance of permits in the operation of water refilling stations/water bottling plants, and burial grounds

9. CURRENT STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILS. International Commitments: • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants • Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consents Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade • Bassel Convention on the Trans-boundary Movement of Hazardous Waste • The Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances

10. CURRENT STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILS. • Regulate, restrict, or prohibit the importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures that present unreasonable risk and or injury to health and environment; • Prohibit the entry, even in transit, of hazardous and nuclear wastes and its disposal into Phil.territorial limits;

11. CURRENT STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILS. • Working on the development of a National Implementation Plan on POP’s elimination and ratification of the treaty by the Philippine Senate; • Adoption of cleaner production technologies.

12. MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS • BANNED PESTICIDES • DIOXINS (PCCD) AND FURANS (PCDF) • Based on preliminary results of the Phil. National PCCD /PCDF Inventory in 1999, identified that uncontrolled combustion processes, power generation and cooking are the major sources. • Air had the highest PCCD/PCDF contamination that can be attributed to uncontrolled combustion of agricultural residues, firewood cooking, and biomass fired boilers .

13. MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS • HEAVY METALS • Mercury • Hazardous Wastes • Estimated 2.41 M tons (642,985 tons from CALABARZON) of hazardous wastes generated annually

14. REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTES • Presidential Decree 1152 – Phil. Environment Code • Set guidelines for waste management • Provide measures to guide and encourage appropriate government agencies in establishing sound, efficient, comprehensive & effective waste management

15. REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTES • Presidential Decree 1144 • Created the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority to assure adequate supply of fertilizers and pesticides at reasonable price • To protect the public from risks inherent in the use of pesticides

16. REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTES • Presidential Decree 856 – Code on Sanitation of the Philippines • Provide guidelines in the implementation of sanitation in the areas of water supply, refuse disposal, disposal of dead person, domestic wastes, etc. ……… • Republic Act 9003 – The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2001 • Provide a comprehensive. Integrated and ecological approach to solid waste management

17. REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTES • Republic Act 6969 – Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990 • Inventory of chemicals and chemical substances • Listing of all existing chemicals and chemical substances • Screening of harmful substances before entering the Philippine commerce

18. REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC WASTES • Republic Act 8743 – Phil. Clean Air Act of 1999 • Prohibiting the use of incinerators for the treatment and disposal biomedical, municipal and hazardous wastes • Provision for the development of short term and long term government programs on reduction and elimination of POPs.

19. Some related experiences on Risk Assessment • Explosion in the vinyl acetate monomer storage tank area • Explosion at the chemicals storage area • Several incidences of cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A outbreaks in different locations

20. Maraming Salamat!