PHAR 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hazardous Waste, Superfund, Endangered Species
Document Summary
Fda regulates: food safety, drug safety, tobacco products, cosmetics, animal foods, and radiation-emitting products. Assuring foods are safe, sanitary, and properly labeled. Ensuring drugs and medical products are safe and effective. Protecting the public for electronic product radiation. Osha guidelines: to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources . Land quality, water quality, air quality, hazardous waste, endangered species, pesticides and nuclear waste: ddt and its toxic effects. Ddt is a persistent chemical that was a heavily used insecticide. Breakdown products were found in human blood and it leads to endocrine disruption, infertility, birth defects, and increasing cancer risks. Studies have shown that most people tend to fear risks that are uncontrollable and unobservable more than they fear routine or voluntary risks. Increasing response time, increasing difficulty of linkage to specific chemicals, increasing importance: bioaccumulation/bioconcentration/biomagnification and food webs.
