| | Salt Institute Opposes Listing Chloride Salts as "Toxic" and Supports Improving Salt Management |
 | | Environment Canada, however, is recommending that “road salts” should be labeled “toxic” substances while the 1992 TRB report concluded that, even considering significant environmental impacts, the benefits and lack of feasible options means society should continue to use sodium chloride as its preferred winter maintenance material for the indefinite future. |
| | If Environment Canada had been able to succeed in convincing the public that the word “toxic,” has another, less objectionable meaning than that in the dictionary, the word “toxic” itself would have been so devalued as to lose its present utility in raising alarm and concern. |
| | Environment Canada “wins” by keeping the hammer of future action available, and the public wins by getting safe roads, a healthy economy and reduced environmental impacts from “road salts” as new salt management techniques are adopted. |
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