Dr. Richard Carignan at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On June 9th, 2008. See this statement in context.

June 9th, 2008 / 4:20 p.m.

Full Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montréal, As an Individual

There are replacement products. NTA, or nitrilotriacetates, and EDTA have replaced phosphorus in a number of different European products. We do not necessarily want to follow their lead. As I say, there are currently dishwashing detergents available on the market that do not contain phosphates and do a very good job of cleaning dishes.

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