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Environmental health policy. Certain environmental health programs
or health policies should be developed and implemented, with a focus on
better handling of waste removal and on how POCs should be used. A law or a
policy similar to the U.S. Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) passed in 1996
should be adopted to focus on children’s (including pregnant women’s) higher
sensitivity to most chemical residues, and on the health impacts of
cumulative and aggregate exposures. Governments should have available more,
as well as more effective, illness surveillance programs, which should be
linkable to the community’s levels of exposure to POCs. |