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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4217.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session explores trends in regulating chemicals that affect human health. The first session looks at successful international public health efforts to reduce exposure risks, though efforts to reduce the levels of harmful chemicals used in pesticides and other products. The presenter will focus on struggles in the European Union over efforts by the European Chemical Agency to reduce chemical use. The second reviews recent experience with policies for the management of persistent bioaccumulative toxic substances (PBTs) using examples of North American and international policies developed over the past 15 years. The third looks at the use by the federal government of epidemiological evidence from studies in humans and toxicological evidence from studies in animals to determine the likelihood of health risks from exposure to environmental contaminants and how these policies address avoiding false positives and false negatives. The final session explores current trends in state legislatures to effectively reduce mercury exposure and investigate how proposed changes to the Clean Air Act might affect these efforts. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of the Session participants will: 1. Gain a sense of international, national and state regulatory attempts to curb chemical use and exposures. 2. Hear critiques of the various regulatory systems, how they effect the chemical industry and actually reduce chemicals in the environment. 3. Learn how policymakers are various levels react and respond to scientific data and political pressure. | |||
| Joy E. Carlson, MPH Doug Farquhar, JD Shobha Srinivasan, PHD | |||
| Claire L. Barnett, MBA | |||
| Approaches to translation of scientific information in environmental health sciences for policy audiences Amy D. Kyle, PhD MPH, Martyn T. Smith, PhD | |||
Policies for the management of persistent bioaccumulative toxic substances: A review of experience ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Kate Davies, MA DPhil | |||
| Heavy (metal) lifting: State efforts to reduce mercury exposure Glen Andersen, MSPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA