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Biomonitoring : EPA could make better use of biomonitoring data : testimony before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate / statement of John Stephenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Stephenson, John B.
- Series:
- Testimony ; GAO-10-419T.
- Testimony ; GAO-10-419T
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Environmental Protection Agency--Rules and practice.
- United States.
- United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Environmental health--United States.
- Environmental health.
- Pollution--Physiological effect--United States.
- Pollution.
- Environmental monitoring--United States--Methodology.
- Environmental monitoring.
- Hazardous substances--Health aspects.
- Hazardous substances.
- Biological monitoring--United States--Methodology.
- Biological monitoring.
- Toxicity testing--United States--Methodology.
- Toxicity testing.
- Environmental Monitoring--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Environmental monitoring--Methodology.
- Pollution--Physiological effect.
- Toxicity testing--Methodology.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- Environmental Monitoring--legislation & jurisprudence.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Rules.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (9 pages).
- Other Title:
- EPA could make better use of biomonitoring data
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]
- Summary:
- Biomonitoring, which measures chemicals in people's tissues or body fluids, has shown that the U.S. population is widely exposed to chemicals used in everyday products. Some of these have the potential to cause cancer or birth defects. Moreover, children may be more vulnerable to harm from these chemicals than adults. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to control chemicals that pose unreasonable health risks. One crucial tool in this process is chemical risk assessment, which involves determining the extent to which populations will be exposed to a chemical and assessing how this exposure affects human health. This testimony, based on GAO's prior work, reviews the (1) extent to which EPA incorporates information from biomonitoring studies into its assessments of chemicals, (2) steps that EPA has taken to improve the usefulness of biomonitoring data, and (3) extent to which EPA has the authority under TSCA to require chemical companies to develop and submit biomonitoring data to EPA.
- Notes:
- Title from title caption (GAO, viewed May 10, 2010).
- "For release on delivery expected at 10:00 a.m. EST Thursday, February 4, 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 657900268
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