Proactive limit values for responsible management of chemicals |
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Authors: | Hermann H Dieter |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene of the Federal Environmental Agency, P.O. Box 330022, D-14191 Berlin, Germany |
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Abstract: | Limit values (LVs) are legal concentration limits for constituents, residues and contaminants in consumer products or for
emissions from production processes into environmental compartments. They are a traditional regulatory aid to manage chemicals
in human environments. To make them proactive, LVs should become enforced by means of a transparent and informed decision
process whose starting point is the Basic Rule of Environmental Hygiene, BREH:Avoid useless exposure as far as possible, minimize useful exposure in a reasonable manner, and prevent that exposure which
is dangerous. The BREH calls upon minimizing exposure not only according toon site risk potentials and acceptance, but also tooff site avoidability and acceptability. |
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Keywords: | Adverse effects anthropogenic exposure avoidability of exposure biogenic/geogenic exposure chemicals responsible management environmental hygiene environmental management strategies exposure anthropogenic functionality of exposure limit values proactive management of chemicals proactive limit values |
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