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Chemistry of Sust 1
Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| NOx/SOx | Nitrogen Oxide/Sulfur Oxide |
| Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 | Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source or recycled in an environmentally safe manner and that pollution that cannot be prevented or recycled should be, as a last resort, treated and disposed of in an environmentally safe manner. |
| Bisphenol A | Used in plastic baby bottles and toys, adverse effects |
| National Research Council 1984 | No toxicity data was available for almost 80% |
| Market basket system | test a few samples of imported food, used by the FDA |
| CPSC | Consumer Product Safety Commission, protect against UNREASONABLE risks of injuries associated with consumer products |
| Risk | Hazard x Exposure |
| TSCA | Toxic Substance Control Act, part of EPA, "unreasonable risk", test/ban, "generally regarded as safe" |
| USDA | US Department of Agriculture, safety of meat, poultry, eggs |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency, protect environment, pollution prevention, safer chemicals, risk reduction, public understanding |
| New Chemical Program | Chemical "gatekeeper", TSCA section 5, must give 90 days for EPA before entered into commerce |
| TSCA Section 6 | Protect against "unreasonable risk" |
| Chemical right-to-know initiative (Chem RTK) | Everyone has the right to know, will gather data, especially on those used for children and publish it |
| CAS | Chemical Abstract Services number, chemical identity, physical properties, environmental fate |
| PBT | Persistent Bio-accumulative Toxics, resistant to degradation, persist and accumulate in natures and organisms |
| REACh | Registration, evaluation, and authorization of chemicals, anything coming through Europe needs to be checked |
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet, created by OSHA, intended for workers, information about the chemicals |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Heath Administration, insure safe working conditions for factory workers |
| NFPA Diamond | health, flammability, reactivity, special, |
| EPCRA | Emergency Planing Community Right to Know Act, no one wanted to be part of ChemRTK, congress told EPA to "make it public" but not how |
| Rio +20 | 20 years since UNCED (UN Conference on Environment and Development)/Earth Summit, reduce poverty by investing in renewable energies |
| Congress Passed Acts | Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Superfund (CERCLA) |
| CERCLA | Superfund, designed to clean up hazardous sites |
| RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, governing the disposal of solid waste |
| SIDS | Screening Information Data Set |
| HPV | High Production Volume chemicals, commonly used |
| P2, PPA | Pollution Prevention, Pollution Prevention Act |
| TRI | Toxic Release inventory |
| De-materialization | a gradual decline in the amount of materials and energy it takes them to generate every dollar of gross domestic product |
| Lynn Goldman | Thinks TSCA and the EPA need to do a better job |
| Chris Goodall | UK consuming less |
| OMB cleared... | Office Management of Budget cleared PBDE (flame retardants) |
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