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"en.20040419.13.1-168"2
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"Madam President, cadmium is a dangerous chemical. It is carcinogenic and can cause serious damage to the nervous system. It also bioaccumulates, which means that it stays in the body and builds up over time. High exposure can cause severe lung, prostate and kidney cancer. The use of cadmium should therefore be banned. At the very least a ban on cadmium in household batteries would help to reduce cadmium levels and promote the use of alternatives in batteries over time. These alternatives to cadmium are what we really need, and they already exist.
Cadmium pollution of the environment carries very high health and economic costs, including water purification costs. These costs – or more correctly these potential savings – must be taken into account when considering the cost of a ban on cadmium batteries. If one looks at the dangers of cadmium one realises that we must seek out alternatives. There are alternatives and the only way we will achieve them is to impose a ban. In the long run this is the right approach to take for the sake of public health, consumer protection and the environment. The propaganda we have heard, which is completely simplistic and totally inaccurate, does nothing to help the debate, wastes the money of those who are trying to promote the opposite approach, and will not work. I hope that the Members of this Parliament will not be swayed by this simplistic rubbish."@en1
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