These data support precautionary maternal exposure limits.
A standard self-administered questionnaire was used to inquire about timing and amount of exposures, specific types of exposures, and precautionary measures taken.
It now falls to the public and policy makers to evaluate whether this result supports precautionary steps to reduce exposure, particularly in light of other evidence of health damage from PAHs and available alternatives to reduce exposure.
Since it was shown that precautionary measures could limit exposure to Hg concentration, then the use of protective measures needs to be emphasized.
Generally, we favor the precautionary measure of preventing exposure to lead by replacing pipes completely.
Given the ongoing controversy surrounding DBPs and adverse pregnancy outcomes, especially regarding associated BDs, a precautionary approach to DBP exposure during pregnancy is somewhat justified.
While the risk of vCJD from BSE food animals was not established, they took precautionary measures to limit exposure which were, in retrospect, prudent.
Different from epidemiological surveillance, this kind of monitoring does not necessarily imply immediate synthesis with health data and aetiologic hypotheses testing; rather it aims at precautionary risk management and exposure reduction.
Moreover, according to the precautionary principle, the existing exposure criteria should drastically be revised, since the effects reported in all studies with real mobile phone emissions have been recorded with EMF-intensities well below (up to thousands of times below) the existing exposure limits [ 8, 26, 31– 75, 96].
Precautionary measures taken during exposures are discussed.
