A need to examine the global flow of lead and cadmium in products was identified as a data and information gap in the draft final reviews of scientific information on lead and cadmium (version of November 2008).

UNEP has recently prepared, with financial support of the Nordic Council of Ministers and the assistance of Grupo GEA and the International POPs Elimination Network, studies on the analyis of the trade flows and review of environmentally sound management practices related to products containing lead, cadmium and mercury in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Asia and the Pacific, respectively.

These studies are going to be presented at the next UNEP GC26 as documents UNEP/GC.26/INF/11/Add.3 and UNEP/GC.26/INF/11/Add.4 , repectively.

Documents will be available in this Lead and Cadmium website as well as at the UNEP GC26's website. An advance version of the Latin America and the Caribbean study (both in Spanish and English)  is available now.