2010年3月29日,美国环保局宣布采取数项关于双酚A的潜在影响的活动。双酚A是一种广泛用于制造消费品和工业产品的产品。今天宣布的双酚A行动计划重点是双酚A对环境的影响,并预计将双酚A添加到EPA的关注和要求测试的化学品名单。具体的行动计划如下:
- 以其潜在的环境影响为基础,将双酚A添加到化学品关注名单。
- 要求双酚 A在地表水、地下水和饮用水中的浓度的信息,以确定双酚A是否达到潜在关注标准。
- 要求制造商提供测试数据以协助环保局评估双酚A可能造成的后果,包括对生长、繁殖和水生有机体和野生动植物的发展的长期影响。
- 使用EPA环境设计计划,寻找降低不必要的暴露的方法,包括评估代用品,虽然还要进行额外的研究。
- 通过非食品包装用途的暴露,持续评估其对儿童和其他人口的潜在影响
2010年1月,美国食品药品管理局(FDA)宣布已关注双酚A对人体健康的潜在影响并将研究双酚A的潜在影响和减少其在食品包装中的暴露的方法。
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EPA to Scrutinize Environmental Impact of Bisphenol A
Release date: 03/29/2010
Contact Information: Dale Kemerykemery.dale@epa.gov202-564-7839202-564-4355
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 29, 2010
WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a number of actions to address the potential effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in the manufacture of a wide range of consumer and industrial products. The BPA action plan released today focuses on the environmental impacts of BPA and will look to add BPA to EPAs list of chemicals of concern and require testing related to environmental effects. These actions are part of Administrator Lisa P. Jacksons comprehensive effort to strengthen the agencys chemical management program and assure the safety of chemicals.
In January 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had some concerns about the potential human health impacts of BPA and it would study the potential effects and ways to reduce exposure to BPA in food packaging.
We share FDAs concern about the potential health impacts from BPA, said Steve Owens, assistant administrator of EPAs Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. Both EPA and FDA, and many other agencies are moving forward to fully assess the environmental and health impacts to ensure that the full range of BPAs possible impacts are examined.
Food packaging represents the most obvious source of BPA exposure to people and is regulated by FDA. Unlike FDA, EPA has authority over the potential environmental impacts of BPA. Releases of BPA to the environment exceed 1 million pounds per year. BPA has caused reproductive and developmental effects in animal studies and may also affect the endocrine system. The EPA action plan on the environmental impacts of BPA includes:
稟dding BPA to the chemical concern list on the basis of potential environmental effects.
稲equiring information on concentrations of BPA in surface water, ground water, and drinking water to determine if BPA may be present at levels of potential concern.
稲equiring manufacturers to provide test data to assist the agency in evaluating its possible impacts, including long-term effects on growth, reproduction, and development in aquatic organisms and wildlife.
稶sing EPAs Design for the Environment (DfE) program to look for ways to reduce unnecessary exposures, including assessing substitutes, while additional studies continue.
稟nd, continuing to evaluate the potential disproportionate impact on children and other sub-populations through exposure from non-food packaging uses.
EPA is working closely with FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on research to better assess and evaluate the potential health consequences of BPA exposures, including health concerns from non-food packaging exposures that fall outside of the FDAs reach but within EPAs regulatory authority. Based on what this new research shows, EPA will consider possible regulatory actions to address health impacts from these other exposures.
In December, EPA announced that it will, for the first time, use its authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to list chemicals that may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. The decision to list chemicals signals EPAs concern about the risks that the listed chemicals may pose and the agencys intention to address those risks. These actions are part of the agencys efforts to strengthen EPAs chemical management program, utilizing current authorities to the fullest extent possible, while continuing to encourage legislative reform of TSCA, which has not been updated since 1976 and is in need of reform.
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