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Appendix 2: Government Reports on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Ministry for the Environment

  • A Strategy for Managing PCBs, PCBs Core Group Hazardous Waste Task Group, 1988
  • The Herbicide 2,4,5-T: Technical Report of an Investigation into Residues of the Herbicide and Its Dioxin Component in Sheepmeats, 1989
  • Ambient Concentrations of Selected Organochlorines in Rivers, 1998
  • Ambient Concentrations of Selected Organochlorines in Soil, 1998
  • Concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs in Retail Foods and an Assessment of Dietary Intake for New Zealanders, 1998
  • Reporting on Persistent Organochlorines in New Zealand, 1998
  • Ambient Concentrations of Selected Organochlorines in Estuaries, 1999
  • Ambient Concentrations of Selected Organochlorines in Air, 1999
  • Organochlorines Programme Environmental Survey Database and Users Manual, 1999
  • New Zealand Inventory of Dioxin Emissions to Air, Land and Water, and Reservoir Sources, 2000
  • An Action Plan for Reducing Discharges of Dioxin to Air, 2001
  • Concentrations of Selected Organochlorines in Serum from the Non-Occupationally Exposed New Zealand Population, 2001
  • Dioxin Discharges from Waste Incinerators: Technical Specifications for National Environmental Standards, 2001
  • Evaluation of Toxicity of Dioxins and Dioxin-Like PCBs: A Health Risk Appraisal for the New Zealand Population, 2001
  • The Cost Effectiveness of Reductions in Dioxin Emissions to Air from Selected Sources, 2001
  • Dioxin Concentrations in Residential Soil, Paritutu, New Plymouth, 2002
  • Dioxin and Furan Emissions to Air from Secondary Metallurgical Processes in New Zealand, 2004
  • Updated Users Guide to Resource Management (National Environmental Standards Relating to Certain Air Pollutants, Dioxins and Other Toxics) Regulations 2004 (including Amendments 2005), 2005

Ministry of Health

  • Safe Management of PCBs: Code of Practice, 2nd edition, 1988, Department of Health (reprinted 1993)
  • Dioxin Levels in Milk and Food Paper Packaging Products: A Follow up Survey Monitoring the Dioxin Levels in Milk Products, and an Initial Investigation of Dioxin Levels in Some Food Paper Packaging, 1994
  • 1987/1988 New Zealand Total Diet Survey, ESR Health, 1994
  • 1990/1991 New Zealand Total Diet Survey.  Part 1: Pesticide Residues, ESR Health, 1995
  • Phasing out Small PCB Holdings: Information Booklet for the Technical and Trade Associations, 3rd edition, 1995
  • Investigation of Organochlorine Contaminants in the Milk of New Zealand Women, A report from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research to the Ministry of Health, Bates et al, 2001
  • New Plymouth, Paritutu Community Dioxin Exposure Assessment Study, Baker et al, 2003
  • A Study of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) Exposures in Paritutu, New Zealand, Fowles et al, 2005

 

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