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Tanzania National Report on Alternatives to Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) - Second Phase

Tuesday, 31 August 2021 - 11:26am

Highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) are a threat to human health and the environment, with significant impacts on developing and transition countries. In 2005, more than 100 governments at the Fourth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4) agreed that HHPs are an issue of global concern and reached a consensus resolution to give priority to promoting agro-ecological alternatives in the process of implementing the strategy on HHPs developed by FAO-UNEP-WHO.

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Lead

TBS urged to enforce standards on lead in paint to protect children

Friday, 26 October 2018

https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/tbs-urged-enforce-standards-lead-paint-protect-children

In celebrating the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (ILPPWA), Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) and other institutions had been urged to enforce standards on lead in paint to protect children. 

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Mercury

State intensifies anti-mercury drive

Tanzania
Monday, 09 October 2017

http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/53462-state-intensifies-anti-mercury-drive

THE government plans to conduct an inventory of all miners and scrutinise their work environment to control and phase out mercury use. The Minister of State in the Vice President’s Office, Union and Environment, Mr January Makamba, revealed the plan in an interview with the ‘Daily News’ in Dar es Salaam over the weekend.

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Chemicals in Products

Local activists want action against toxic chemicals in toys

Wednesday, 26 July 2017

http://www.ippmedia.com/en/business/local-activists-want-action-against-...

The Guardian Reporter

LOCAL health and environmental conservations activists are putting pressure on regulators to impose stringent guidelines on locally manufactured and imported children’s toys as studies show that they are harmful.

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Lead in Paint

New Report: Lead in Solvent-Based Paints for Home Use in Tanzania

Tuesday, 11 July 2017
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This report, conducted by Agenda for Environment and Responsible Development (AGENDA) in partnership with IPEN, presents new data on the total lead content of solvent-based paints for home use available on the market in Tanzania.

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Mercury

AGENDA Waungana Na TGNP Mtandao Kuelimisha Jamii Athari Za Madini Zebaki (Mercury)

Tuesday, 20 June 2017

https://habari24.blogspot.com/2017/06/agenda-waungana-na-tgnp-mtandao.html

vicent macha 

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Mercury

Tanzania risks missing vital meeting on global pact

Sunday, 04 June 2017

http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/50992-dar-risks-missing-v...

RODGERS LUHWAGO

TANZANIA is likely to participate at the first Conference of the Parties (COP1) of the Minamata Convention as observers.


The conference is confirmed to take place from 24 to 29 September this year at the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Lead in Paint

Tanzania to Eliminate Lead in Paint by 2020

Friday, 16 September 2016

Tanzania Bureau of Standards’ Acting Director General, Engineer Edna Ndumbaro, has announced that Tanzania plans, over the next four years, to remove all paints with lead substances from the market.

In addition, government representatives from Kenya and Tanzania have agreed to work to revise the lead limit of the current East African Community (EAC) standards on various types of paint to 90 ppm total lead.

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Lead in Paint

Lead, the poison in your paint, fuel and toys

Thursday, 07 April 2016

http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=90406

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