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    If You Can’t Find It Here, You May Not Find It

    By Keith R | February 1, 2008

    Topics: Biotechnology, Consumer Protection, Cosmetics/Personal Care Products, Economics & the Environment, Energy & the Environment, Environmental Protection, Food/Beverage Issues, Hazardous Substances, Health Issues, Occupational Safety & Health, Pharmaceutical Issues, Renewable Sources, Sanitation, Tobacco Control, Waste & Recycling, Water Issues | No Comments »

          
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    Quite a few Temas Blog readers noticed the absence of new posts for several weeks. I was fully occupied with work day-and-night on the final stages of the total revamp and re-launch of my main site, temasactuales.com Although work continues on the Spanish and Portuguese versions (coming soon!), the burden has lightened enough that I can return to blogging.

    I hope though, dear readers, that you won’t mind if a take a couple of posts to go over what Temas now offers so you’ll go check it out.

    This first post focuses on the now huge library of legal texts — texts of laws, decrees, regulations, norms, ordinances, etc. — on environment, health and consumer policy issues that you can now find in one place (Temas) and download, rather than spend hours, days or weeks hunting on the internet or contacting officials asking for hardcopies.

    For this relaunch of Temas we have added hundreds of new texts to the Temas Legislation Database. We’ve also added entries for Haiti, Suriname and the Central American Integration System (SICA). The only LAC nations/territories we do not yet have entries for are the Cayman Islands, Grenada, and the Dutch Antilles. If you know how we can obtain texts for them, or you spot a significant hole in our consumer, environment and health law for the other nations, please let me know either in a comment to this post or through the contact form.

    We’ve made it easier to browse the laws/regulations by adding 18 thematic lists covering:

    air pollution
    batteries and lamps
    biotechnology
    consumer protection (including advertising rules)
    cosmetics and toiletries (includes personal hygiene products)
    detergents and cleaning products
    ecolabeling
    economic instruments (ecotaxes, emissions charges, etc.)
    electrical and electronic equipment (EEE)
    energy and mining
    environmental licensing
    food and beverages
    hazardous substances
    packaging
    pharmaceuticals
    public health (includes OHS and tobacco control)
    wastes and recycling
    water and sanitation

    I honestly believe this is the most comprehensive online collection (in one place) of legislation on environment, health and consumer policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). If you can’t find it here, you probably won’t find it online.

    From hereon we plan to regularly update sections as we get ahold of new texts. You can find out what’s been added by regularly checking the “what’s new” page at Temas. Or you can register for free to receive notices of new additions to the pages of Temas and our policy update newsletter.

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