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Article: Researchers at National Institutes of Health target environmental health.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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"This article describes the personal experience and perspective of the authors, who had primary responsibility for drafting the initial health-based regulation limiting lead content of gasoline during the early 1970s while employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)," researchers in the United States report.
"DATA SOURCE: Information used by the U.S. EPA in developing the initial health-based regulation limiting lead content of gasoline in December 1973 and studies documenting the impact of that and subsequent actions. Among the lessons learned from this experience is the importance of having input from independent scientists to the regulatory ...