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Addressing Public Health and Chemical Exposures: An Action Agenda
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National Conversation Leadership Council
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, Chemical Substances and Toxics, Risk Assessment, Management, Sampling, Monitoring, Impacts, Health, Environmental Justice, Toxic Substances Control Act, TSCA, CDC, ATSDR
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Despite decades of research and many notable public health protection achievements, there are still significant gaps in our understanding of chemicals and health, and the United States lacks a comprehensive system that fully protects the public’s health from harmful chemical exposures. The recommendations described in this Action Agenda illustrate how we can enhance and continue to build such a system in the United States. The National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures was born out of a widely shared desire to spur the United States toward the vision of using and managing chemicals in ways that are safe and healthy for all people. Many shared the perception that a broad, grass-‐roots “call to action” was needed. Achieving the National Conversation vision will require acting with common purpose to overcome many scientific, economic, political, and practical challenges. Collectively, we often fail to prevent health effects from chemical exposures before they occur. Although environmental justice concerns are well understood, we often fail to protect the most vulnerable populations who disproportionately suffer the health effects of some chemical exposures. Our scientific understanding of chemicals and their health effects is incomplete, although new toxicological testing methods offer promise. Public health officials and members of the public are sometimes unprepared to communicate and learn from each other as equal partners in efforts to understand the sources, pathways, and impacts of, chemical exposures and what is needed to protect health.
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