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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued for its failure to ban methylene chloride, a chemical used in some paint strippers that has been linked to a number of deaths.
E&E News reportedthat a group including the mothers of two men who died while using paint strippers containing the chemical filed suit in a federal district court in Vermont on January 14. The Vermont Public Interest Research Group, and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families also are parties tothe complaint. Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the EPA, also is named in the complaint.
Methylene chloride is a common chemical in paint removers, the suit says, that is responsible for more than 50 deaths, as well as incapacitation, loss of consciousness, and coma in people who came into contact with it. Despite earlier promises to ban products that contain the chemical, the EPA has failed to follow through, the suit alleges, and has violated terms of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
原告包括宾夕法尼亚州宾夕法尼亚州的劳伦阿特金斯和田纳西州温迪哈特利。在使用含有化学物质的涂料去除剂后，两人都会死亡。
如果EPA慢慢地从市场上获得化学品，那么许多主要的美国零售商就是自己的行动。
12月，亚马逊宣布于三月开始，它不再畅销含二氯甲烷或称为NMP的化合物的涂料去除剂。许多其他零售已经采取了该步骤，包括Home Depot，Lowe，Walmart，True Value和Autozone。
在本月早些时候的一封电子邮件中，GBA要求EPA的新闻办公室当该机构有望发布二氯甲烷的新规则时。该办公室表示，“由于拨款失误，”只有关于政府关闭的问题或威胁人类生命的环境紧急问题。
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问：是否有任何人则遭受损伤或死亡，根据指示使用产品？
约翰，
你甚至阅读了它与之相关的文章和诉讼吗？
“风险评估得出结论，急性（短期）暴露于MC涂料剥离者的风险增加了”失落，神经影响，如昏迷，无能力，
Case 2:19-cv-00009-jmc Document 1 Filed 01/14/19 Page 8 of 14
失去意识，头晕;和肝脏效应，“并且这种慢性（长期）暴露于这些产品的风险增加，肝脏，肺和造血癌症和肝脏损伤增加。”[在风险评估中分析的许多使用方案，工人和旁观者从油漆剥离者曝光的曝光量大于EPA认为安全的曝光边缘数百倍。“
是的，我阅读了这篇文章，这就是我在我的问题中包含“按照指示”的原因。有很多化学物质可以伤害/杀死你。例如，一夏天，我为一家制造了卡车车轴（18轮，自卸卡车等）的公司工作，他们用手涂。涂料中的稀释剂很大，所以我一定会在我进入涂料展位时用我的呼吸器使用适当的全新的罐。
当我是技术（HAZMAT认证）和超级基金站点或炼油厂的水样，我们一定要佩戴适当的手套，因为你不想让你的皮肤上的水。
这是一种需要禁止产品的情况，因为使用该产品的人只是拒绝采取适当的预防措施，或者是标签问题还是两者？
Silica dust is a problem but it doesn't stop people from cutting concrete or cement board with out a respirator. Are we going to ban cement board?
I do recall reading about at least one case where someone wearing a full respirator died.
有一个问题是预期普通人所需的合理预防措施。是的，市场上有很多危险产品。但是，在不持有某种许可证或认证（高放射性物质，摧毁DNA的化学品）的情况下，也有足够的受控物质。
Let's compare the cement board to the paint stripper. With the former, if you decide not to bother with the respirator one time, the possible consequences are getting sick many years later (and based on one incident, not very likely). With the latter, that one lapse in judgement could result in your immediate death within minutes. There's a definite difference in the threat level there that shouldn't be glossed over.
谢谢。普通消费者的声音没有熟练的需要安全使用产品。
Banning everything isn’t the answer either, nor is licensing. It is not possible to regulate away all hazards and dangers. Some people will always get hurt. There are many electrocutions each year too, but no one is going to be advocating banning electricity.
It is necessary to use reasonable caution. I remember years ago on a job I smelled what I thought was methyl ethyl ketone. I looked around and found a can — the maintenance guys were using it as a floor stripper. My crew wondered how I knew what it was, and I told them that now that they’d smelled it, they’d always recognize the smell too. I sent everyone home that day to avoid any risk from the fumes (we were installing network cabling in the building).
我同意通过常规零售渠道劝阻销售更具危险产品，主要在承包商供应室销售更加危险的产品。它似乎通常是与这些事情受伤的房主/ DIY人物。
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