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Chemicals and health - European Environment Agency

Exposure to chemical pollution is linked to a wide range of health impacts — some of which are serious and irreversible. Certain chemicals cause chronic ...

Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals

Many FCCs are of concern for human health because they have hazard properties such as carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and reprotoxicity (CMR), ...

A systematic evidence map of human health studies on plastic ...

To create a systematic evidence map of peer-reviewed human studies investigating the potential effects of exposure to plastic-associated particles/chemicals on ...

Toxins and Health Impacts: Health Effects of 9/11 - CDC

Responders, local workers, residents, students, and others had potential for acute exposures in the early days and continuing exposure from residual materials— ...

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution - World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO fact sheet on ambient (outdoor) air quality guidelines: includes key facts, definition, health effects, guideline values and WHO ...

Plastics and Human Health | Plastics and the Environment Series

Scientifically-proven health effects include causing cancer or changing hormone activity (known as endocrine disruption), which can lead to reproductive, growth ...

Toxics - NRDC

Found in our bodies, food, homes, and the environment, toxic chemicals are pervasive and linked to myriad health issues, from cancer to hormone disruption.

Lead - Overview | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Industry Group Profile Lead Exposure · OSHA Lead Standards for General Industry and Construction – Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) – Blood Lead ...

Human health impacts of exposure to phthalate plasticizers

Our findings align with emerging research indicating that health risks can occur at exposure levels below the “safe dose” levels set out by regulators, and are ...

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

... human health and the environment. In addition, little is known about the health and environmental risks of exposure to combinations of these chemicals.

COVID-19 and Chemicals - IPEN.org

Communities exposed to more of these hazardous chemicals have been shown to have higher rates of these pre-existing chronic diseases. Thus, EDC exposure ...

Chemical safety: Lead poisoning - World Health Organization (WHO)

The purpose of the week is to raise awareness about the human health effects of lead exposure, especially in children, highlight the efforts of ...

How Environmental Toxins Can Affect Your Health

Chemical pollutants are harmful substances that can pose serious and sometimes irreversible health risks. Over 400 environmental chemicals are measured in human ...

EPA Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. ...

rid communities of harmful lead exposure and the resulting toxic effects. 3 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions ...

Chemical policy and programmes to protect human health and ...

• Surveillance of acute and chronic health effects of chemical exposures; development of environmental health indicators related to chemical exposures.

Nurses' Health | Environmental Working Group

Notes: "High exposure" refers to reported exposure frequency of at least once weekly during pregnancy. "Low or no exposure" refers to all other, ...

Chemical Hazards: Identification & Prevention Of Risks Related To ...

On the other hand, chemical risks refer to the likelihood of harm due to exposure to a chemical hazard. Risk assessments are thus conducted to ...

New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate ...

New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate risks to human health ... “The idea of Target is to highlight where action can be ...

Toxic emissions in Chicago's southwest side | School of Public Health

Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA regulates 187 listed air toxic pollutants. Toxic pollutants highlighted in red were recently identified as of ...

Final No Further Action Proposed Plan for MMRP Site ZZ349 Small ...

human exposure reasonably expected to occur. A central tendency exposure ... harm to human health and/or the environment. Unacceptable risk means that ...