{"id":11731,"date":"2024-03-20T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2024-03-20T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:44:40","slug":"regulatory-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/regulatory-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory Updates &#8211; ACMA Insider &#8211; March 21, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EPA Finds Workplace Exposure to Formaldehyde Presents an Unreasonable Risk to Human Health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>EPA has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca\/risk-evaluation-formaldehyde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preliminarily concluded<\/a> that\u00a0reduced pulmonary function, increased asthma prevalence, reduced asthma control, allergy-related conditions, male and female reproductive toxicity, and developmental effects are associated with chronic inhalation exposure to formaldehyde. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers currently employed in 41 occupational scenarios, including processing as a reactant, incorporation into an article, and incorporation into a mixture, are exposed at levels corresponding to what the agency determined is \u201cunreasonable risk\u201d of these health effects. The 8-hour occupational exposure limit would have to be set at 0.0011 ppm to avoid unreasonable risk for workers, according to EPA\u2019s draft assessment; the current ACGIH recommended limit is 0.1 ppm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following peer review of the draft and consideration of public comments, and issuance of the final risk evaluation, EPA will proceed with development of a risk management standard that may ban or limit certain uses of formaldehyde or require adoption of controls to prevent workplace exposures above the levels associated with unreasonable risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:jschweitzer@acmanet.org\">John Schweitzer<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPA Finds Workplace Exposure to Formaldehyde Presents an Unreasonable Risk to Human Health EPA has\u00a0preliminarily concluded that\u00a0reduced pulmonary function, increased asthma prevalence, reduced asthma control, allergy-related conditions, male and female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insider"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Regulatory Updates - ACMA Insider - March 21, 2024 - American Composites Manufacturers Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/regulatory-updates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Regulatory Updates - ACMA Insider - March 21, 2024 - American Composites Manufacturers Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EPA Finds Workplace Exposure to Formaldehyde Presents an Unreasonable Risk to Human Health EPA has\u00a0preliminarily concluded that\u00a0reduced pulmonary function, increased asthma prevalence, reduced asthma control, allergy-related conditions, male and female [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/regulatory-updates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Composites Manufacturers Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-20T14:44:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-20T14:44:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"acmastaff2000\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"acmastaff2000\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/regulatory-updates\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/regulatory-updates\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"acmastaff2000\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acmanet.org\/#\/schema\/person\/9e16d78c63805e4f3385ebfbf32b13f4\"},\"headline\":\"Regulatory Updates &#8211; 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