READ: CDC - Principles of Biosafety
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READ: EPA - Tools for Schools - Asthma
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(1 RC) - Asthma has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, affecting millions of people of all ages and races. An average of one out of every 10 school-age children now has asthma, and the percentage of children with asthma is rising more rapidly in preschool-age children than in any other age group. Asthma is a leading cause of school absenteeism due to a chronic condition, accounting for nearly 13 million missed school days per year… (EPA, Aug 2010)
Read MoreREAD: Healthcare Facilities and Power Outages
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(3 RC) - Across the Nation, in every community, there are individuals in hospitals, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities dependent on power for their well-being. A wide range of facilities provide care in the United States. A portion of these facilities fall within the seventeen provider and supplier types regulated by states and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including emergency preparedness regulations. A portion (e.g., assisted living facilities, board and care homes, individuals living at home) are not regulated by CMS but still may have electrically-dependent residents..… (EPA, Aug 2019)
Read MoreREAD: EPA - Indoor Environmental Quality and Climate Change
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(3 RC) - Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. These emissions come mainly from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), with important contributions from the clearing of forests, agricultural practices, and other activities… (EPA)
Read MoreREAD: EPA - Building Codes and IAQ
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(3 RC) - Conservation-minded building codes have the potential to reduce naturally occurring air exchange for buildings by tightening the envelope and reducing pressurization of unconditioned spaces (e.g. duct sealing). Indoor moisture, altered airflows, lowered air exchange all have the potential for increasing occupant risk of exposures to indoor generated contaminants..… (EPA, Sep 2009)
Read MoreREAD: Asthma Management Guidelines Part Four
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(4 RC) - Broad change in clinical practice depends on the uptake, adoption, and implementation of clinical practice recommendations by primary care providers with input from people who have asthma and their families, as well as support from health care systems. This update can serve as a basis to disseminate and facilitate adoption of the asthma recommendations at all levels and to ensure optimal care and equitable outcomes for all individuals with asthma.… (NHLBI, Dec 2020)
Read MoreREAD: Asthma Management Guidelines Part Three
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(4 RC) - Broad change in clinical practice depends on the uptake, adoption, and implementation of clinical practice recommendations by primary care providers with input from people who have asthma and their families, as well as support from health care systems. This update can serve as a basis to disseminate and facilitate adoption of the asthma recommendations at all levels and to ensure optimal care and equitable outcomes for all individuals with asthma.… (NHLBI, Dec 2020)
Read MoreREAD: Asthma Management Guidelines Part Two
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(4 RC) - Broad change in clinical practice depends on the uptake, adoption, and implementation of clinical practice recommendations by primary care providers with input from people who have asthma and their families, as well as support from health care systems. This update can serve as a basis to disseminate and facilitate adoption of the asthma recommendations at all levels and to ensure optimal care and equitable outcomes for all individuals with asthma.… (NHLBI, Dec 2020)
Read MoreREAD: Asthma Management Guidelines Part One
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(4 RC) - Broad change in clinical practice depends on the uptake, adoption, and implementation of clinical practice recommendations by primary care providers with input from people who have asthma and their families, as well as support from health care systems. This update can serve as a basis to disseminate and facilitate adoption of the asthma recommendations at all levels and to ensure optimal care and equitable outcomes for all individuals with asthma.… (NHLBI, Dec 2020)
Read MoreREAD: Principles of Pediatric Environmental Health
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(4 RC) - Environmental factors play a large role in children’s health. According to the World Health Organization, more than 30% of the global burden of disease in children is due to environmental factors. Children’s growth and development are dynamic processes; they can be viewed at the molecular, cellular, organ, and whole-child levels. What determines the nature and severity of environmental factors’ health effects is exposure occurrence within the different developmental stages… (ATSDR, Feb 2012)
Read MoreREAD: IEQ impacts of World Trade Center attacks
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(1 RC) - The draft proposed sampling plan provides an overview of how buildings (residential, office, and public) south of Houston Street, in Manhattan, would be sampled to determine if any remaining WTC-related contamination is present. As proposed, only dust samples would be taken from buildings made available by the owners or managers. Samples would be taken from locations where exposures are likely to occur, such as in elevated horizontal surfaces.… (ATSDR, Mar 2005)
Read MoreREAD: Ventilation & Formaldehyde Sampling of FEMA Trailers
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(3 RC) - This report addresses two questions. First, are air formaldehyde levels in closed, unventilated trailers high enough to be associated with health effects in humans? Second, can simple measures such as running air conditioning or opening windows lower the levels of formaldehyde? Accordingly, the data were generated by conducting air sampling for formaldehyde in new, unoccupied trailers under three specific conditions.… (ATSDR, Oct 2007)
Read MoreREAD: ATSDR Health Consultation - Lead in Dust Report One
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(2 RC) - The Canon City area has been the historical site of a number of milling and smelting facilities. Based on environmental contamination from those operations, questions and concerns have been voiced by residents of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Among the various issues are specific concerns that lead contaminated dust from current and historical operations may have migrated into the residential neighborhood… (ATSDR, Nov 2006)
Read MoreREAD: ATSDR Health Consultation - Lead in Dust Report Two
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(2 RC) - The Canon City area has been the historical site of a number of milling and smelting facilities. Based on environmental contamination from those operations, questions and concerns have been voiced by residents of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Among the various issues are specific concerns that lead contaminated dust from current and historical operations may have migrated into the residential neighborhood… (ATSDR, Nov 2006)
Read MoreREAD: Evaluation of Follow-up Indoor Air Samples - Nutrition Center
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(2 RC) - This health consultation evaluates health risks from exposure to tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene associated with the operation and/or contamination at Pacific Cleaners. The owners of an adjacent health food store, Randy’s Nutrition Center, and the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department had raised concerns regarding potential exposure to PCE and TCE in indoor air.… (ATSDR, Mar 2005)
Read MoreREAD: Air Quality Health Assessment Davis County, UT
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(1 RC) - The indoor air monitoring for homes surrounding Hill AFB began in 2003 and currently continues. Both homes residing directly over the plume as well as homes outside of the plume boundaries were sampled. During the routine sampling, indoor air samples were collected and analyzed for VOCs. One of the contaminants routinely detected in indoor air samples is 1,2-DCA; it has been detected in approximately 90 homes in Layton.… (ATSDR, May 2009)
Read MoreREAD: IAQ Sampling Midwest School, Wyoming
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(1 RC) - On May 24, 2016, CO2 alarms outside the school went off, prompting an evacuation of students and staff. Air monitoring and investigation began two days later on May 26. ATSDR recommends that the building not be reoccupied until thorough investigation and sampling demonstrate no potential health hazards from building indoor air. … (ATSDR, Sept 2006)
Read MoreREAD: Evaluation of Vapor Intrusion into Buildings - Colorado
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(2 RC) - Schlage Lock Company, located in Security, Colorado, discovered that the groundwater beneath their manufacturing facility was contaminated with the chemical tetrachloroethylene, which is also known as perchloroethylene (PCE). Schlage utilized the solvent as a metal cleaner and degreaser during the production of door locks and related hardware… (ATSDR, Nov 2006)
Read MoreREAD: ATSDR Health Consultation Modesto, CA
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(3 RC) - The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Toxic Substances Control asked CDPH for help in responding to a community member in Modesto. The person had health concerns about potential exposures to volatile organic compound (VOC) releases from dry cleaning operations near their home. CDPH met with the person and responded to the concerns.… (ATSDR, Feb 2018)
Read MoreREAD: ATSDR Health Consultation Salem, OR School District
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(2 RC) - The Environmental Toxicology Program (ETP) at Oregon State Public Health issued a public health advisory to all school districts in Oregon. The advisory was prompted by the release of two public health consultations from Ohio and Michigan related to flooring manufactured by the 3M Corporation from the early 1960’s to 1980. According to 3M, mercury was used as a catalyst when mixing the polymer to form the floor… (ATSDR, July 2006)
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