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Management of Hazardous Agents - Volume 1: Industrial and Regulatory Approaches (Hardcover, New)
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Management of Hazardous Agents - Volume 1: Industrial and Regulatory Approaches (Hardcover, New)
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This book, along with its companion volume, discusses the research
needs, institutional modifications, and legislative changes that
must be addressed to deal more effectively with the risks of
hazardous materials. Prominent among the research needs is the
necessity to assess the health effects of low-level exposure to
toxicants. For none of these agents (lead, mercury, radiation,
PCDDs, dioxins, PCBs, pesticides) is the existing toxicological
data sufficient to define unambiguously the dose-effect
relationship in the low-dose domain. Another uncertainty is our
ignorance of how individuals within the human population may vary
in susceptibility to the agents because of differences in genetic
background, age, sex, diet, health status, and exposure to
extraneous environmental influences. Also identified among the
research needs are methods for improving the technology of waste
disposal, waste reduction, and waste recycling. Institutional
changes necessary are the commitment to long-term, pro-active,
prevention-oriented objectives; institutional mechanisms to achieve
better consistency and coordination among different agencies;
improvement in the reliability, credibility, and effectiveness with
which institutions communicate risk-assessments and risk-management
policies; and provision for more adequate education and training of
all who must be involved. Finally, the need for certain legislative
changes is considered, including better use of incentives, such as
taxation and price support mechanisms; better use of enforcement
provisions; statutes that address cross-media patterns of human
exposure; and greater federal-state-local coordination in
risk-assessment and risk-management activities.
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