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The regulation of the manufacture, distribution, sale, use and disposal of chemicals can have various administrative purposes, such as the proper attribution of liability onto those whose handling of chemicals causes consequential damage to persons or property, familiar to many in “the polluter pays principle”. The state can also use the law to regulate markets for chemicals, for example to prevent distortion of the market for chemicals or to prevent monopolies. The purpose of this chapter, however, is to look at those regulations which have as their aim the safeguarding of human health when exposure to chemicals is essentially unavoidable although largely predictable, e.g. at work or via foods. Such law exists because certain chemicals, by intent (as with herbicides, pesticides and poisons) or by accident (industrial disasters or the side-effects of medicines), have been shown capable of unwanted, often adverse effect on man. These may follow direct exposure, dealt with in this chapter, or indirect exposure e.g. via the environment. Pollution of the environment, its consequences and its possible control are explored in Chapters 4 and 5.
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Pugh, D.M. (1998). Deciding on the Regulatory Limits Which Have Ensured that Exposures of People to Chemicals were without Unacceptable Risk. In: Pugh, D.M., Tarazona, J.V. (eds) Regulation for Chemical Safety in Europe: Analysis, Comment and Criticism. Environment & Policy, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5316-4_2
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