Environment committee  Further—

Environment committee  Well, you need to speak to Health Canada about that, and about their testing.

Environment committee  Because we operate here in Canada within a regulatory framework, and that framework is the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Environment committee  We embrace that process.

Environment committee  Even when flawed. Perhaps your focus should be on improving that process if you're not happy with it.

Environment committee  But if you look at page four of my presentation, we're saying that BBP and DBP are not used in children's toys.

Environment committee  Not necessarily. I should clarify that over 70% of all vinyl resin goes into building and construction products, which are used for many decades--many, many, years. Our particular focus at the present time is in the construction area, when those products come out of use. We're e

Environment committee  Well, on the technical side, I would defer to Marian. I can tell you, if you're going to recycle a flexible product, you need to recycle it into another flexible product, not necessarily the same product. Marian.

Environment committee  That is an excellent question.

Environment committee  I have wondered many times about that. It's a challenge for the government to monitor those products that are coming into this country, especially products intended to be used by children. They need to monitor those products. They need to test those products. And perhaps it woul

Environment committee  The reason for eliminating phthalate from those items back in 1998--and it was industry that stepped up and voluntarily withdrew phthalate out of teethers and soft rattles--was that it was done as a precautionary measure pending further research. That's a very important part of t

Environment committee  With regard to DBP and what is on slide 4, I can't think of a vinyl product where DBP is used. With regard to DEHP, as we've mentioned, it's products that are inflatable, like beach balls, water wings, and that sort of thing, and raincoats, rain boots.

Environment committee  As I said before, they are not in teethers and soft rattles, things intended to be put into the mouths of children.

Environment committee  Health Canada—and you would have to ask them for the studies—have been pulling these products off the shelves since 1998 and testing them.

Environment committee  I think on that particular report, where Health Canada was coming from, they did express concern about sensitive sub-populations. And to be precautionary about it, they were recommending that if alternatives exist to treat those sensitive sub-populations, if they're available, th