Chương này phân tích pháp luật liên bang chính địa chỉ tiếp xúc với con người. Phân tích cung cấp một đáng ngạc nhiên kết luận. Quy định về môi trường của chúng tôi, được thiết kế để bảo vệ sức khỏe con người, cung cấp rất ít bảo vệ chống lại các nguồn chính của tiếp xúc với chất ô nhiễm gây nguy hiểm cho sức khỏe con người. Lớn nhất trong số các nguồn sản phẩm tiêu dùng thông thường và vật liệu xây dựng hầu như còn nguyên vẹn pháp luật hiện hành. Một lý do là phương pháp tiếp cận. | Part VII Policy 2007 by Taylor Francis Group LLC 21 Environmental Laws and Exposure Analysis Anne C. Steinemann University of Washington Nancy J. Walsh Emory University CONTENTS Clean Air Act CAA .488 Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act CERCLA and Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act SARA .490 Consumer Product Safety Act CPSA .492 Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act FFDCA and Food Quality Protection Act FQPA .493 Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act FIFRA .495 Occupational Safety and Health Act OSH Act .496 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA .498 Toxic Substances Control Act TSCA .499 Questions for Acknowledgments .502 References .512 SYNOPSIS This chapter analyzes how major federal laws address human exposure. The analysis provides a surprising conclusion. Our environmental regulations designed to protect human health offer scant protection against major sources of pollutant exposure that endanger human health. The largest of these sources common consumer products and building materials are virtually untouched by existing laws. One reason is that our regulatory approach focuses on outdoor emissions and effluents rather than on exposures even though exposures are how pollutants reach humans and affect health. Another reason is that no federal agency or law specifically regulates indoor environments where most of our exposure currently occurs. For example our primary exposure to many hazardous air pollutants HAPs occurs indoors. Yet existing regulations focus on HAPs outdoors essentially ignoring the high levels of HAPs found indoors. Moreover the laws contain exclusions and loopholes that enable significant exposures to occur. For instance everyday household products can be exempt from testing and disclosure of their toxic chemical constituents. Finally the laws 487 2007 by .
