Lautenberg Chemical Safety

The Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) is a federal statute that was enacted in 1976. Under the TSCA, chemicals must meet regulations set by the administering body, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Toxic Substance Control Act also requires testing of new chemicals to determine how they affect both the environment and humans. If the chemicals do not meet the regulations, the EPA is allowed to limit or prohibit their manufacturing and sales (Cheeseman, Page 523). While the Toxic Substance Control Act has been around since 1976, it has been amended or expanded 29 times in the last three years alone (EPA.gov). Violating this federal statute can result in hefty fines, and in serious cases, jail time. Like many federal statutes, the Toxic Substance Control Act has some opposition, especially as more changes continue to be made, but overall it has been well-received as a vital protection law that is generally well-enforced.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in charge of the National Priorities List. Currently the EPA is seeking to propose a rule 61. I currently work for a corporation, AECOM that stands for Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Management, where our job is to destroy chemical agent, such as mustard nerve agent. AECOM works diligently to follow EPA guidelines to ensure we do not fall under Comprehensive

Arguments in favor of BPA’s continued commercial use center on the assertion that each exposure is so minimal that the lifetime risk to human health is not serious enough to call for a ban on a chemical with a variety of commercial applications. While the argument appears to focus on degree of exposure rather than on a debate about whether or not chemicals do, in fact, have the potential to leach, vulnerabilities in certain individuals make the specific “safe” exposure level difficult to identify definitively.

Facts: In 1977 Congress revised the Clean Air Act (CAA) to address states that failed to attain air quality standards previously established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)1. This amendment to the CAA required states that were not in compliance with the established air quality standards to create a permit program regulating new or modified major stationary sources of air pollution1. The EPA defined a major stationary source as any device in a manufacturing plant that produced pollution1. This definition was later refined to allow an existing plant to use new equipment that did not meet the established standards so long as total emissions from the plant did not increase.

I’m happy that they were able to create a certification organization in the U.S.A. and individual states but why didn’t they start it sooner. There should’ve been various organizations similar to this during the 1960’s, putting limits and restrictions on chemicals and also informing others about what could happen in the future if you there aren’t any limitations to chemicals. At least we’ve somewhat learned from our mistakes in the past, now we don’t have as many toys recalled before. Hopefully now we have more qualified toy manufactures and scientists that will not allow anyone to be exposed to horrid chemicals. But we should still be more wary of what could damage our environment because it could hurt us as well. We also shouldn’t ignore the inevitable, anything can happen, we are still discovering

This shows that not only does BPA affect the current people of today’s society, but it will affect the future generations of our society, our children’s society and even their children’s society. This chemical is seen by the greed of very wealthy businessmen who have a goal of profiting off of us: the beginning middle class. Furthermore, Brent Bauer states, “Epoxy resins are used to coat the inside of metal products, such as food cans, bottle tops and water supply lines. Some dental sealants and composites also may contain BPA” (What is BPA?). Bauer is showing that no matter what we do, no matter what actions we may try to take in order to avoid BPA getting into our bodies and causing to self-implode, it will not work. The monster is everywhere. It is possible to use products that do not contain such high levels of BPA, but for just about everything: desks, water bottles, food cans, and even dental procedures can and will put us all in danger of feeling the wrath of the beast. BPA is very close to all of us, but I do believe it has played a significant role in my grandfather’s battle and recovery with

Now, 93% of Americans have BPA in their bodies from this plastic. Little girls are

This is because the chemical has one of the most common environmental chemical exposures to humans. Abbreviated “BPA”, bisphenol A exposure, has been linked with several mechanisms that are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease, this comprises of weight gain, insulin resistance, thyroid dysfunction, endothelial dysfunction, and oxidative stress (NHANES 11).Public health places emphasis that the health of populations should be considered by reducing the quantity of bottled water they consume. Data should be collected for the purposes of policy decision making and deciding the best ways the consumption of bottled water should be curtailed Considering that an endocrine-disrupting chemical, BPA has been shown to have estrogenic and thyroid hormone that disrupts the effects of experimental studies. This owes to the fact that there are significant relations between childhood obesity and the type of water such children who get infected by the disease consume. The venture hence becomes a serious concern because people, specifically Americans, have been unknowingly poisoning themselves and their children with the prior mentioned chemical. This has been championed by the use of BPA contained in bottled water. Notably, only reduces human consumption of this harmful chemical which is found 93% of the American adult

is a difficult chemical to escape -- it's in so many plastic products from water bottles and sippy cups to contact lenses and toys. Controversial studies linking BPA to health risks, particularly reproductive risks, prompted companies to go the "BPA-free" route. But new research from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Health Sciences says not so fast: BPS (Bisphenol S), a replacement for BPA that technically makes products BPA-free, is probably not safe either.

“The amount of plastic the world consumes annually has steadily risen over the past seventy years, from almost nil in 1940 to closing in on six hundred billion pounds today. We became plastic people really just in the space of a single generation” (Freinkel, 2011, p. 7). This quote is from the first chapter of Susan Freinkel ’s book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. She talks about how much plastic has taken over our world, but specifically in the past decade, she notes, we have produced more plastic than we did the entire 20th century (Freinkel, 2011, p. 10).

A rule such as a statutory rulemaking requirements that is applicable to a wide range of agencies include the Administrative Procedure Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, and the Information Quality Act (Copeland, 2008). Furthermore, there are other statutorily-based rulemaking policies that are a part of agency- or program specific laws, which provides varying ranges of discretion regarding the substance of agency rules that can impose additional analytical or procedural requirements. As a result, rulemaking is heavily influenced by the courts decision. For example, in 1980 the Supreme Court ruled that before promulgating new health standards, OSHA must demonstrate that the particular chemical to be regulated poses a significant threat under workplace conditions permitted by current regulations (Copeland, 2008). Hence, an implementation policy is design to protect as well as to guide the individual interest group, organizations, and stakeholders, since the laws that are made by the legislatures are general and could be misguided due to its potency of being

Research into the effects of BPA is ongoing, but many individual countries have restricted its use, particularly in packaging of foods and beverages intended for consumption by young children.

Everyone one at some point in their life has drank from a plastic bottle, whether it was a baby bottle, a plastic disposable water bottle, or just a water bottle you have used for exercise. If you were to show someone one of these thing they would know what it is, but what they might not know is that it can be harmful to them. A while back a lot water bottles used to be made with something called BPA, which has been proven to have many side effects on people when it get absorbed into from the plastic to your water. In this paper I will be informing you on BPA, what it is on how it gets into your water, what side effects it can have on you, and are water bottle safe for you now.

Once you open your eyes to it, it’s everywhere, from the Tupperware you eat out, the cans that your food is packaged in, to the helmets you put on your head and the laptop that you’re using. BPA has been used as a plastic hardener for the past 40 years now and is now deeply engrained in our products of modern consumer society. Although it’s children and unborn babies that are the most affected by this toxic chemical, adults are not exempt form

More than 90% of us have BPA in our bodies right now. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a harmful chemical used to manufacture most plastics and cans. It is also found in most water bottles and baby formulas. Although many people use processed goods daily, they have very harmful chemicals in them such as BPA. BPA can lead to many major health issues such as problems in the central nervous system, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer.