Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington Seattle School of Public Health, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE Suite 100, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States.
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington Seattle School of Public Health, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE Suite 100, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States; Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND), 3711 47th Place NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States.
Neurotoxicology. 2018 Dec;69:181-186. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2017.10.009. Epub 2017 Nov 8.
Outdated federal and state occupational lead standards leave workers and their families vulnerable to the adverse effects of lead. Standards should be updated to reflect the best available scientific and medical evidence, which documents harm to multiple organ systems even at low levels of exposure. This commentary will review the inadequacies of existing policies, highlight susceptible populations, and briefly summarize state revision efforts to date. Federal policies must be strengthened to protect all workers and their families from this well-documented hazard.
过时的联邦和州立职业性铅标准使工人及其家人易受铅的不利影响。标准应进行更新,以反映最佳的现有科学和医学证据,这些证据证明即使在低暴露水平下,也会对多个器官系统造成损害。本评论将审查现有政策的不足之处,突出易受影响的人群,并简要总结迄今为止各州的修订工作。联邦政策必须得到加强,以保护所有工人及其家人免受这一证据确凿的危害。