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Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society: Workshop Summary
On November 7-8, 2013, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to discuss approaches related to identifying and reducing potential environmental public health risks to new and existing industrial chemicals present in society. Industrial chemicals include chemicals used in industrial processes or commercial products, not including those found in food, pesticides, or pharmaceuticals.

Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society is a summary and synthesis of the presentations and discussions that took place during the two days of the workshop. The workshop examined successes and areas for improvement within current regulatory programs for assessing industrial chemical safety, frameworks for chemical prioritization to inform targeted testing and risk management strategies, concepts of sustainability and green chemistry that support the design and use of safer alternatives, and efforts to reduce the risk of chemicals in our society.

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Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society: Workshop Summary
On November 7-8, 2013, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to discuss approaches related to identifying and reducing potential environmental public health risks to new and existing industrial chemicals present in society. Industrial chemicals include chemicals used in industrial processes or commercial products, not including those found in food, pesticides, or pharmaceuticals.

Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society is a summary and synthesis of the presentations and discussions that took place during the two days of the workshop. The workshop examined successes and areas for improvement within current regulatory programs for assessing industrial chemical safety, frameworks for chemical prioritization to inform targeted testing and risk management strategies, concepts of sustainability and green chemistry that support the design and use of safer alternatives, and efforts to reduce the risk of chemicals in our society.

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Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society: Workshop Summary

Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society: Workshop Summary

Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society: Workshop Summary

Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society: Workshop Summary

Overview

On November 7-8, 2013, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to discuss approaches related to identifying and reducing potential environmental public health risks to new and existing industrial chemicals present in society. Industrial chemicals include chemicals used in industrial processes or commercial products, not including those found in food, pesticides, or pharmaceuticals.

Identifying and Reducing Environmental Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Society is a summary and synthesis of the presentations and discussions that took place during the two days of the workshop. The workshop examined successes and areas for improvement within current regulatory programs for assessing industrial chemical safety, frameworks for chemical prioritization to inform targeted testing and risk management strategies, concepts of sustainability and green chemistry that support the design and use of safer alternatives, and efforts to reduce the risk of chemicals in our society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780309301152
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication date: 11/02/2014
Pages: 179
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

Organization of the Summary 2

Key Themes 3

2 The Challenge: Chemicals in Today's Society 5

The Challenge 6

The Public Health Approach to Industrial Chemical Assessments 12

National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures 19

References 23

3 Current Regulatory Approaches to Dealing with Industrial Chemicals 25

The Toxic Substances Control Act 25

The European Commission Approach 38

Discussion 42

References 49

4 Models for Environmental Risk Assessment and Exposure Science 51

Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment 51

Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy 57

Advancing the Next Generation of Risk Assessment 61

The Design and Evaluation of Safer Chemical Substitutions: A Framework to Inform Government and Industry Decisions 67

Discussion 69

References 71

5 Approaches to Prioritizing Chemicals for Risk Assessment and Risk Management 73

Developing Models to Prioritize Chemicals for Target Testing 73

Approaches to Priority Setting in California 79

Assessing and Prioritizing Risks in Canada 84

American Chemistry Council Views on Chemical Prioritization 92

Discussion 96

References 99

6 Current Efforts to Reduce the Risk of Chemicals in Our Society 101

Case Study: Sustainability and Green Programs at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 101

Case Study: Johnson & Johnson 104

Case Study: Dow Chemical Company 108

Case Study: American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute 112

Case Study: Substitute It Now and GreenScrcen 116

Case Study: Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute 120

Case Study: Bullitt Center 123

Discussion 127

Reference 129

7 Reflections on the Workshop and Concluding Remarks 131

Appendixes

A Glossary 137

B Agenda 149

C Speaker Biosketches 157

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