PROJECT #3

Project #3

Project #3

Introduction

The Kettleman City community has requested assistance from the State of California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in carrying out a Community Exposure Assessment (CEA) to investigate the possible causes for the latest spike in birth defects and increased cancerous infection rates inside the residential community (Site). In January 2010, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger administered the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) to perform an investigation of promise ecological contaminants which might assist to the birth defects. Over the next year and with the assist and guidance of the Kettleman City community, Cal/EPA will gaze for chemicals in the air, water, and soil in the Kettleman City areas renowned or suspected to cause birth defects and increased caner rates. The proposed CEA is a connected effort by both Cal/EPA and USEPA.

Each week more chemicals are presented into the marketplace. Of roughly 7 million total chemicals accessible worldwide, 70,000 are in present use, with more than 1000 supplemented each year (Newill, 1989). Although chemicals are essential to rendezvous social and financial goals, in numerous countries financial concerns may prevail over ecological wellbeing concerns. Major problems encompass need of sound principle and regulations, need of scientific data for risk assessment, and need of learning on the part of the general community considering the ecological wellbeing effects of hazardous chemicals. Disposal of hazardous chemicals and administration of hazardous waste sites are world-wide problems. To elaborate hazardous waste information and to discover of its influence on human wellbeing, broader worldwide collaboration would be beneficial.

Cons

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Nofer Institute of Occupational Health of Poland have cooperated in ecological public wellbeing program areas pertaining to hazardous substances. In 2001 the two agencies signed a note of affirmation (LOA) under which they swapped data and scientific reports and documents. ATSDR has also sponsored three reports/studies under the agreement. The first report assessed hazardous waste-site databases in Poland and delineated waste administration recommendations. The second report assessed hazardous waste sites that engaged promise exposure to metals and examined wellbeing effects and risk characterization. The third study investigated the kind and incidence of birth defects and their promise associations with hazardous waste sites, with other incidences of natural environment contamination, or with both. Currently, results only from the primary navigate investigation for the study are available; they anxiety spatial distribution of the occurrence rate of birth defects.

Globally, disadvantaged populations may be most influenced by hazardous wastes. Children are especially at risk: “A quarter of the international problem of disease can be attributed to ecological risk factors; over 40% of ecological disease problem falls on young children under 5 years of age which is 10% of the world population” (http://www.who.int/ceh/en/).

When ATSDR drawn from its health-based guidance values - renowned as negligible risk levels (MRLs) - for the peak chemicals on ATSDR's Priority List, more than 10% of the 357 total MRLs drawn from as of February 2007 were based ...