Form 3
Annual Report
LaMer, Ehime University
Date (d, m, 20)

To Director of LaMer
Principle Investigator:
Affiliation

Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment

Position Senior Lecturer
Name in print: LE THI HAI LE

Include the report on the result of the project/meeting in a separate sheet.
1. Project / Meeting title- Conference Title: the 19th International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine
Organisms (PRIMO 19)- Session Title: Pollution in Vietnam
2. Members of project / meeting
NameAffiliation

PositionContribution partPIMembers
1. Le Thi Hai Le
2. .Pham Hung Viet
3. Le Thi Trinh
4. Nguyen Hung Minh
5. Tran Minh Tri

LaMer Faculty member incharge
1. Shinsuke Tanabe
2. Iwata Hisato

Hanoi
Univ.
of
Natural Resources &Environ.
National Univ. for
Natural Sciences
Hanoi
Univ.
of
Natural Resources &Environ.
Center for Environ.
Monitoring
National Univ. for
Natural Sciences

Senior Lecturer

Director of Faculty

Chair of Session &give Presentation
Chair of Session &give Presentation
Presentation

Head of laboratory

Presentation

Lecturer

Presentation

Director of CMES
Director of LAMER

Chair of Session
Supervise

Director of Center

REPORT TO LAMER
Session on “Pollution in Vietnam” at PRIMO19 on June 30- July 3, 2017 inMatsuyama, JapanLe Thi Hai Le
Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam

In recent decades, Vietnam has developed its economy with unprecedented speed.
From a backward agricultural country, undergoing two wars has now become ahigh economic growth country. The development of industrialization from thebackward agricultural production has made a great emerging country, but industrial
development, transportation and urbanization has been causing increased
environmental pollution.
With the support of the LAMER Program (Prof. Iwata Hisato, Program Director),
the delegation of scientists from universities and environmental management
agencies of Vietnam attended and opened the session "Environmental Pollution
in Vietnam "at the 19 International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine
Organisms (PRIMOR19) on July 1, 2017 at Ehime University, Matuyama, Japan.
The purpose of the session is to provide a comprehensive picture of current
environmental issues in Vietnam; to share experiences with international
colleagues on future research collaborations and to find out the solutions to control
environmental pollution, especially the management of the marine environment inVietnam.
At the session Oral and Poster presentation, a number of topics on environmental
issues have been discussed, as well as pointed out new research findings andcollaborative research directions needed to do in the future, including as follows
as:1. Fours (4) papers on POPs/PCBs and heavy metals pollution in river systems
in Vietnam :a) Distribution and accumulation profiles of OCPs and PCBs in sediment andbiota samples from Cua Dai Estuary, Vietnam (Authors: Le Thi Trinh et al.)b) Bioaccumulation of heavy metals (As, Cd, Hg, Pb) in blood cockle Anadara
granosa from Mekong Delta, Vietnam (Authors: N.P. Cam Tu et al.)c) Initial studies on toxic accumulate PCBs in estuaries in the northeasternregion of Vietnam (Authors: Le Thi Hai Le et al.)d) Assessment for the levels of PCBs residue in sediments in some coast
estuary areas in middle of Vietnam (Authors: Trinh Thi Tham et al.)2. Three (3) papers on pollution caused by production activities in industrial
zones, craft villages and waste recycling areas in Vietnam:a) Distribution and sources of PFCs in surface water from drainage system
and lake in Hanoi and some craft villages in the Northern Vietnam;(Authors: Pham Hung Viet et al.)b) Contamination by PFCs in blood collected and fish species collected inHanoi Vietnam (Authors: Le Huu Tuyen et al.);c) Contamination and human exposure to hazardous substances in modernwaste recycling sites in Vietnam (Authors: Takahashi Shin et al.).
3. Fours (4) papers on pollution caused by the consequences of chemical war inVietnam :a) Human health Risk assessment of dioxin from soil contamination in ALuoi district, in middle region of Vietnam (Authors: Le Thi Hai Le etal.);b) Determination of PCDD/Fs in breast milk of women living near Bien
Hoa Airbase: Implication of source and assessment of dioxin intake ininfants (Authors; Nguyen Hung Minh et al.);c) Bioaccumulation of PCDD/Fs in food items collected near Bien Hoa andDa Nanng airbase: Assessment on source, distribution and their intake inhuman (Authors; Nguyen Hung Minh et al.)d) A trans-generational relationship of dioxin on adrenal antigens ofVietnamese mother-child pairs (Authors: Le Thai Anh et al.)
4. Fours (4) papers on the future collaborative research direction for thetoxicology of pollutants in humans and organisms:a) Persistent toxic substances in Vietnam results of recent studies onenvironmental distribution and human exposure (authors: Tran manh Triet al.)b) Effects of naturally synthesized dioxin, 1,3,7 tribromodibenzo-p-dioxinon the mystic transcriptome (Authors: Le Huu Tuyen et al.);c) The occurrence and human exposure of endocrine disrupting compounds
in the door environment from Vietnam (Authors: Tran Manh Tri et al.);d) Screening analysis of organic pollutants in dust from ELV recycling andurban areas in northern Vietnam (Authors: Hoang Quoc Anh et al.)Vietnam is in a stage of strong economic development with a transparent view ofthe government. "Do not change the environment for the economy." Therefore,
through this symposium, the Vietnamese delegation had the opportunity to learn
about the environmental management experiences of Japan and other countries,
seeking partners in scientific research in order to effectively environmental control
and minimize the pollutants impacts to human and organisms./.