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MID-COURSE TRAINING REPORT
RISK ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS
LECEL SANDIGAN
PHILIPPINES
Contents
Purpose of Training
Areas of Interest
Summary of Acquired Knowledge
Subjects the Needed More Time
Requests
Purpose of Training
To gain scientific and technical knowledge and techniques for
risk assessment and monitoring of environmental chemicals
through lectures, practices and observations
Areas of Interest
Environmental management programs of Japan’s national
and local government units
Risk assessment of industrial pollutants
Environmental impact assessment
Principles and analytical techniques for air, water and
soil quality
Summary of Acquired Knowledge
I. Environmental management
 Environmental laws and standards in Japan
 Water treatment techniques
 Waste management system
 Air pollution control and management
Summary of Acquired Knowledge
II. The Environmental Chemicals
 Chemistry of environmental chemicals
 Soil environment and environmental soil contaminants
 Industrial pollutants in Japan
 Endocrine disrupting chemicals
 Biotransformation of chemicals
Summary of Acquired Knowledge
III. Risk Assessment
 Impact of agricultural chemicals on the environment
 Distribution, fate and effect of environmental contaminants
 Ecological risk assessment of environmental contaminants
 Risk assessment of agricultural chemicals for human health
 Environmental impact assessment
Summary of Acquired Knowledge
III. Principles and Techniques for Monitoring
 Techniques for analysis of dioxins
 Practice with instrument makers (HORIBA, Hitachi and Shimadzu)
 Analytical techniques relating to agricultural chemicals and
other environmental chemicals in soil
 Water quality measurements
 Toxicity and carcinogenicity testing of pesticides
 Analysis of environmental contaminants in food
Summary of Acquired Knowledge
IV. Environmental Promotion
 Projects to promote environmental creation
 Observations
 Water Science Museum
 Goshiki Town Wind Power Generation Facility
 National Institute for Minamata Disease
 Minamata Disease Municipal Museum
 Minamata Disease Archives
Subjects that Needed More Time
Behavior of pesticide in paddy field and prediction
of fate using simulation model
Ecological risk assessment of environmental contaminants
Risk assessment of pesticides
Requests
Follow-up lectures on the “Subjects that
Needed More Time”
A practical experience on the evaluation of the risk of
an agricultural chemical to humans and the environment
given a set of pertinent data and the application of
risk mitigating measures or risk management
ARIGATO GOZAIMASU!!!