Generic standards: prospects and pitfalls

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• Personal Author:
  Bell RH
• Description:
  A generic standard was defined as one which regulates similar situations or several chemical compounds through a single rule making procedure. Two types of generic standards were reviewed: a generic communications standard and a generic chemical class standard. The generic communications standard served as a guide for information sharing and had as its advantages flexibility, opportunity for professional judgment, a basis for consistency in evaluation, and provisions for timely updating. Disadvantages included the potential for public confusion and difficulty in enforcement. A generic chemical class standard groups chemicals with similar structures, toxic endpoints or physical properties which can be regulated through a single rule. In practice it has been difficult to get agreement on which chemicals are to be regulated or how. As a comment against the generic standard for chemical compounds, it was noted that toxic properties of a molecule can change greatly with relatively small changes in structure. The authors also discussed mathematical models to assess quantitative cancer risk. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Carcinogens Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Hazardous-materials Industrial-hazards Legislation NIOSH-Publication Occupational-health Regulations Toxic-materials
• ISBN:
  9780897665230
• ISSN:
  0077-8923
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  90-92
• Volume:
  572
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00202333
• Citation:
  Ann NY Acad Sci 1989 Dec; 572:90-92
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1f38149b47bcd65f468d1a71c398c2814b0102ab5ffabc8ba02a0bb968282308ebc20b221076c2aeec27bc2feeed52f1d25fc81aaa0357785dda5695ed2eb8f4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/204809/cdc_204809_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 156.40 KB ]