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PAINT AND COATINGS MANUFACTURING: CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT PLAN
Canada's Widely Regarded
Chemical Management Plan
BY GARY LEROUX
PRESIDENT AND CEO, CANADIAN PAINT AND COATINGS ASSOCIATION
T
he Canadian paint and coatings industry has been
heavily involved with the federal government for
many years regarding 'chemical assessment' and
the subsequent 'risk management' of chemicals in
commerce. The same can be said for other industry sectors
using chemicals in products. This widely regarded and rigorous
world class approach to chemical assessment, the Chemicals
Management Plan (CMP), along with literally thousands of
other federal chemical regulations, ensures safe products for
consumers and protects both human health and the environment.
That is a fact despite suggestions to the contrary in some circles,
albeit without a full and complete knowledge of long established,
strict protocols on how chemicals are assessed in Canada.
A quick look at what the coatings industry alone is dealing
with on chemicals management reveals that there is no stone
left unturned when it comes to ensuring chemicals used in
Canada are safe. At the same time these chemicals deliver strong
performance for many sustainable products used every day.
This includes around the home for protection of valuable assets,
road markings ensuring safety on our streets, anti-viral coatings
ensuring clean surfaces in hospitals and schools, and the list goes
on.
First, for the coatings industry alone there are now two
pending draft chemical risk assessment reports completed
after many months of data gathering and exhaustive sciencebased
evaluation by federal officials, all with strong science
backgrounds. For substances concluded as being CEPA-toxic,
these assessments may lead to 'risk management' measures such
as outright bans, regulations, pollution prevention plans, codes of
practice, etc. For the coatings industry there are 23 chemical risk
assessment and chemical risk management instruments already
published covering more than a dozen substances designated
as 'toxic' under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
(CEPA).
Second, for CMP-3, there are 24 draft and final screening
assessment reports being prepared for groups of substances in
the costings industry such as ketones, flame retardants, esters,
alcohols, and furans. These important reports move forward
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