Regulatory-Direction

Regulatory Direction The current direction of regulations and air-poUution control efforts is clearly toward significantly reducing the emissions to the environment of a broad range of compounds, including ... 

Regulatory Direction There is no doubt that pollution prevention continues to be the regulatoiy direction. The development of new and more efficient processes and waste minimization technologies will be essential to support this effort. 

A distinction should be made between the different levels of political influence operating at different levels of policy. At the macro level, the body politic is regarded as representative of the public or the electorate. Hence, politics is a means by which society decides which regulatory direction is ethically acceptable, socially preferable, economically beneficial and scientifically reliable. From the perspective of representative democracy, therefore, it is desirable for politics to determine the overall legal frameworks within which dmgs are regulated. But at the micro level, where decisions are made which apply those legal frameworks to specific cases, it is not desirable for politics to exert influence on individual cases. 

QA/QC laboratories. The QA/QC lab is responsible for the testing of feedstocks and raw materials, process intermediates, and finished goods, and may, in addition, be responsible for the development of standards for materials, processes, and procedures. The QA/QC lab is usually characterized by the routine, repetitive nature of its workload. Testing is primarily to specification and, where lot acceptance or rejection is involved, is often on a grade category or pass/fail basis. Data may be archived for compliance with regulatory directives and for analyses of trends In material or process performance. 

Fig. 2 Environmental assessment of surfactants is based on values of biodegradation and aquatic toxicity. A surfactant must lie within the shaded areas in order to meet the OECD regulatory directives...

The nature of regulatory-directed studies is also such that, compared to basic research, they are frequently held in low esteem by administrators and discipline peers alike. As unjust as this may sound, it is a fact of academic life and those of us who are engaged in these areas must live and work with it — some of it is justified. There is a certain repetitiveness to these studies that obscures their scientific merit and the original research that may have preceded these phases. Unfortunately, it is this mundane aspect that is remembered when space and resource allocations are made. Any mandates that reinforce this image of hackneyed data production will only hurt the position of practical and/or regulatory programs. 

Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Regulatory Directive (October 6, 1999). DIR 99-06. Voluntary Pesticide Resistance -Management Labeling Based on Target Site/Mode of Action. 

PMRA, Harmonization of Regulation of Pesticide Seed Treatment in Canada and the United States, Regulatory Directive DIR2003-02, Pest Management Regulatory... 

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