December 14th to 16th 2022
21°
Seminar on
Chemical Safety,
Contaminated Areas
São Paulo's
and Health
NEW AND TRADITIONAL SCENARIOS OF HUMAN EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS
"Santo André" - Wagner Kuroiwa
organizedb by
Partners
introduction
Contemporary life exposes us daily to a wide variety of chemical compounds from different sources. These compounds originate in nature or derive from human activities, impacting different population groups through ingestion, inhalation or contact with the skin of those exposed. Several diseases are associated with acute or chronic exposure to these compounds, such as cardiac, pulmonary, neurological and renal dysfunctions, neoplasms, among others. According to the UN, in 2019 there were about 2 million deaths related to chemical exposure.
One of the main routes of human exposure to chemicals is related to air contamination in open environments. In these cases, the variety of chemical substances hazardous to health to which a population is frequently exposed is usually associated with the economic production model of a given urban environment or region. Industrial production, such as petrochemical complexes and intensive aerial spraying of pesticides in agricultural production zones are examples of economic activities with significant potential for atmospheric pollution and, consequently, for determining human exposure scenarios. Such activities deserve attention in Public Health policies and the adoption of surveillance and control measures.
More recently, new chemical exposure routes have been gaining importance, such as those derived from routine contact with products and utensils of common use, in the household or in everyday environments, whose composition includes chemicals that are hazardous to health, such as metals, solvents and phthalates. They are substances or compounds present in different concentrations, among others, in electronic and personal hygiene products, cosmetics, food additives, and plastic and metallic utensils.
Reducing disease and mortality from chemical contamination is among the UN's global sustainable development goals (SDG 3.9). In this sense, public policies are needed to assess, monitor, regulate and mitigate exposure to potentially hazardous chemicals.
This year's São Paulo's Seminar on Chemical Safety, Contaminated Areas and Health (21th SAC), promoted by the Sanitary Surveillance Center of São Paulo State in partnership with the faculties of Public Health and Medicine from the University of São Paulo, aims to disseminate and debate national and international experiences respect of human exposure scenarios to chemical contaminants, resulting from production processes or consumption of goods and services, in order to improve knowledge and direct public policies to promote and protect the health of the community.
The 21th SAC is an initiative linked to the traditional Environment and Health Annual Cycle of Events from the Sanitary Surveillance Center, which also includes the Water and Health and Healthy Hospitals seminars, this year in its 12th and 15th versions, respectively.
The main objective of the Cycle is to know in depth the broader contexts and local contingencies that determine or influence health and disease processes associated with environmental factors, an essential condition for effective action in the control of health risk.
To this end, the Sanitary Surveillance Center and its partners – all of whom are notably relevant on the subject – seek to foster expanded dialogue with society and disseminate theoretical knowledge and practices that support our civilizing journey.
Welcome!
Panel 1 - december 14th (Wednesday), 09:30am to 12:30pm (Brazilian time)
Atmospheric contamination by aerial spraying of pesticides
Aerial spraying of pesticides is a common practice in Brazil with a record and repercussions even in São Paulo State. This type of agricultural management based on the intensive use of pesticides has the potential for environmental contamination and exposure to hazardous substances to the health of workers and populations surrounding the crops.
Understanding the surveillance and control strategies adopted in other countries and regions can support the improvement of environmental, health and agricultural defence policies for more sustainable and healthy management of our territory.
conference
Implications of banning pesticide aerial spraying in Europe
Martin Dermine - Pesticides Action Network (PAN Europe)
Executive Director of Pesticide Action Network (PAN Europe). He is a veterinarian and holds a Ph.D in Pathology. Since 2012 in PAN Europe, he has knowledge on European pesticide policies and has been coordinating projects to ban pesticides. He has experience in apidology, ecotoxicology and epidemiology.
Speakers
Establishment of exclusion areas for aerial spraying of pesticides in Rio Grande do Sul State
Paulo Anselmi Duarte da Silva - Environmental Protection Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul State
Agronomist at the Environmental Protection Foundation, at the Environmental Office of Rio Grande do Sul State. He works in environmental planning, licensing and inspection, with experience in conservation, protected areas, water resources and cleaner production. He participates in discussions on aerial spray exclusion areas.
The preservation of human rights related to aerial spraying of pesticides
Diogo Diniz Ribeiro Cabral - National Human Rights Council
Lawyer and specialist in Human Rights. Associated to the Maranhão's Society of Human Rights (SMDH), legal advisor to the Federation of Rural Workers and Family Farmers of the Maranhão State (FETAEMA) and researcher in Sociospatial and Regional Development at the State University of Maranhão. He has experience in topics involving human rights in social movements, traditional peoples and communities and socio-environmental conflicts.
Aerial spraying of pesticides and health surveillance of exposed populations
Denise Piccirillo Barbosa da Veiga - Sanitary Surveillance Center
Geographer, with a Masters and PhD in Public Health from the University of São Paulo, specialist in Field Epidemiology from Fiocruz - Brasilia, she works as a technical assistant for Public Health in the Division of Actions on the Environment of Sanitary Surveillance Center of São Paulo State.
Coordination
Adelaide Nardocci - University of São Paulo
Physics from the State University of Londrina and Associate Professor at the Environmental Health Department from the University of São Paulo. She works in research with an emphasis on quantitative methods of assessing risks associated with environmental exposure to chemical and microbiological agents; environmental health surveillance of public water supply, and spatial analysis of health and environment data.
Panel 2 - december 15th (Thursday), 10:00am to 12:30pm (Brazilian time)
Industrial complexes and air pollution
Our history registers a significant mismatch between the policies for the use of the territory for industrial purposes and those for the protection of the environment and collective health. Industrial centers are known to cause severe air pollution, with great potential to affect the health of the region's population, especially when located in urban or peri-urban areas. Despite this, difficulties are observed in delineating direct relationships between scenarios of air contamination by industrial sources and the health conditions of population groups.
Added to the necessary actions for more effective control of the sources of pollutant emissions, some surveillance strategies can assist to understand the causal effects and allow creation of actions to reduce exposure and protect public health.
Conference
Challenges in addressing environmental health issues in industrial contaminated sites, the experience of epidemiological surveillance in Italy
Ivano Iavarone - National Institute of Health (ISS - Italy)
Biologist, MSc in Environmental Epidemiology and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Head of the Environmental and Social Epidemiology Unit, Department of Environment and Health, Italian National Institute of Health. Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Contaminated Sites. Expert in epidemiological surveillance in contaminated sites and environmental health policy.
Speakers
Participatory environmental diagnosis and of health risks from the surrounding communities the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marcela de Abreu Moniz - Fluminense Federal University
Nurse, Master and PhD in Sciences, with emphasis on Public Health and Environment from the National School of Public Health at FIOCRUZ. Professor and researcher at the Fluminense Federal University, she develops activities with the themes of public health and the environment, communicable and non-communicable diseases, risk perception and communication.
Popular environmental surveillance and steel industry: the experiences of Piquiá de Baixo (MA) and Santa Cruz (RJ)
Renan Finamore Gomes da Silva - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Civil engineer, PhD in Public Health from the National School of Public Health at FIOCRUZ. Professor at the Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with experience in Environmental Engineering and Public Health. He works on environmental management issues; management of contaminated areas; environmental justice; and complexity, risks and uncertainties.
Sentinel Units as a surveillance tool for industrial air pollution
Alexandre Mendes Batista - Health Surveillance Coordination of São Paulo city
Biologist, with a specialization in Health Surveillance at the Sirio-Libanês Institute. Health Analyst at the Environmental Health Surveillance Division of the Health Surveillance Coordination of São Paulo city, working in the Health Surveillance Program for Populations Exposed to Atmospheric Pollution (VIGIAR).
Coordination
Karina Yoshie Martins Kato - Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)
Economic scientist, with a master's and PhD in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, she is an Adjunct Professor at the same university, is part of several research groups related to social change, agribusiness and public policies and is a collaborator of the Alternative Policies Institute for the Southern Cone (PACS)
Panel 3 - december 16th (Friday), 10:00am to 12:30pm (Brazilian time)
Chemical exposure in everyday life: new challenges for chemical safety policies
Modern life is strongly anchored in the production of goods made from several and distincts industrial chemical processes. Our daily life implies regular contact and interaction with equipment, utensils and various products structured from chemical manipulations and syntheses that, in certain cases, have the potential for environmental contamination and exposure to substances hazardous to human health.
Many products, such as those based on plastics and those containing heavy metals in their composition, require approaches that are at the core or at the frontiers of environmental protection, chemical safety and public health policies.
conference
Chemical safety public policies for bisphenol, phthalates and household products: the experience of the Swedish Chemicals Agency
Mats Forkman - Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI)
Head of unit at the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI). His main area of work is preventive chemicals control. In addition, he has experience from risk assessment and has been head of the unit for enforcement of articles and pesticides at KemI. Mats has seventeen years of experience at KemI and fifteen years of experience in the chemical industry and as a consultant.
speakers
Challenges to regulate products containing bisphenol A: Implications for policy
Brenda Gamboa Loira - Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (México)
Biologist, with a master in Toxicology from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies from the National Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Environmental Health from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, she has experience in the field of toxicology applied to public health.
Safe management of chemicals in the health sector, with a focus on biomonitoring
Ana Maria Vekic - General Coordination of Environmental Health Surveillance (Minitry of Health)
Chemistry, specialising in Toxicology Applied to Health Surveillance and Master in Public Health. She works as a technical consultant the General Coordination of Environmental Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Health (CGVAM/MS). She has experience in the field of toxicology, chemical safety and biomonitoring.
Advances and challenges in the implementation of WHO/PAHO global policies on chemical safety
Ana Boischio - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
BA biologist from the Federal University of São Carlos and PhD from Indiana University. She is the Regional Advisor on Chemical Safety, Climate Change and Environmental Determinants of Health in PAHO/WHO. She works by providing support to the strengthening of the health component in chemical safety, mainly in Latin American countries.
Coordination
Lady Virginia Traldi Meneses - State Environmental Company of São Paulo (CETESB)
Chemical and Sanitary Engineer, Specialist in Industrial Administration, Master in Public Health and PhD in Science both from Sao Paulo University, employee of CETESB) since 1992, she is the Coordinator of the Stockholm Convention Regional Centre on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) for Capacity Building and Technology Transfer for the Latin American and Caribbean.
The Artist
Wagner Kuroiwa - (@wagnerkuroiwa)
Brazilian plastic artist, best known for his drawings and paintings in vibrant colors and rich in details. A physician, he dedicated his life to his humanitarian purpose and passion for art. Self-taught, he mixes different techniques such as acrylic on canvas, pastel chalk, watercolor, embroidery, wood carving and even x-ray. Winner of several awards, he has exhibited in different regions of Brazil and abroad, with the Arte Contexto show, in Madrid, Spain. With more than 800 paintings produced in more than 70 years dedicated to art, his works can be found in collections in more than 25 countries.
21°
Seminar on
Chemical Safety,
Contaminated Areas
São Paulo's
and Health
NEW AND TRADITIONAL SCENARIOS OF HUMAN EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS
organized by
partners