{"id":6021,"date":"2014-07-25T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-stands-with-health-professionals-to-demand-immediate-safeguards-for-families-and-childrens-health\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:10:17","slug":"merkley-stands-with-health-professionals-to-demand-immediate-safeguards-for-families-and-childrens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-stands-with-health-professionals-to-demand-immediate-safeguards-for-families-and-childrens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley se une a los profesionales de la salud para exigir salvaguardias inmediatas para la salud de las familias y los ni\u00f1os"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Portland, Oreg\u00f3n<\/strong> \u2013 Presionar a los reguladores federales para que tomen medidas inmediatas.<strong> <\/strong>El senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, se uni\u00f3 hoy a los profesionales de la salud para instar al Congreso a aprobar una legislaci\u00f3n que proteja a las familias estadounidenses de algunas de las sustancias qu\u00edmicas m\u00e1s da\u00f1inas identificadas por los cient\u00edficos. Conocidos como persistentes, bioacumulativos y t\u00f3xicos (PBT), estos qu\u00edmicos se encuentran en objetos cotidianos como bolsas de palomitas de ma\u00edz y cajas de pizza y se acumulan a medida que ascienden en la cadena alimentaria y llegan a los alimentos que comemos. Merkley present\u00f3 ayer una legislaci\u00f3n en el Senado que permitir\u00eda a los reguladores federales acelerar la eliminaci\u00f3n gradual de estos qu\u00edmicos da\u00f1inos.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Es hora de que nuestras leyes qu\u00edmicas se pongan al d\u00eda con la ciencia&quot;, dijo Merkley en el evento, que tuvo lugar en el Centro para la Salud y la Curaci\u00f3n de la Universidad de Ciencias y Salud de Oreg\u00f3n. &quot;Es inaceptable que estos productos qu\u00edmicos se incluyan en tantos productos utilizados por familias y ni\u00f1os, incluso sof\u00e1s y colchones, y sin embargo, pr\u00e1cticamente no existen l\u00edmites para su uso&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>El proyecto de ley de Merkley, la Ley para la Protecci\u00f3n de las Familias Estadounidenses contra las Sustancias Qu\u00edmicas T\u00f3xicas, requerir\u00eda que los reguladores federales eliminen gradualmente la mayor\u00eda de las aplicaciones de PBT en los pr\u00f3ximos cinco a\u00f1os. La eliminaci\u00f3n gradual se aplicar\u00eda a todos los usos, excepto cuando la eliminaci\u00f3n de una sustancia qu\u00edmica da\u00f1ar\u00eda la seguridad nacional o causar\u00eda una perturbaci\u00f3n significativa a la econom\u00eda, y cuando no haya otra alternativa.<\/p>\n<p>A Merkley se unieron defensores y profesionales de la salud, incluida Margaret Ngai, enfermera y madre de dos ni\u00f1os peque\u00f1os, y la Dra. Susan Katz, presidenta de la Junta de M\u00e9dicos por la Responsabilidad Social de Oreg\u00f3n, quienes abordaron los graves riesgos para la salud asociados con las PBT. Los PBT pueden causar problemas de salud como c\u00e1ncer, defectos de nacimiento, trastornos del desarrollo y problemas de aprendizaje, que son particularmente perjudiciales para las mujeres embarazadas y los ni\u00f1os peque\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>Ejemplos de sustancias qu\u00edmicas abordadas en el proyecto de ley incluyen mercurio, plomo, retardantes de llama y PFOS. Se ha demostrado que los retardantes de llama bromados, que se encuentran com\u00fanmente en muebles tapizados y colchones, causan defectos de nacimiento y problemas de aprendizaje. Una sustancia qu\u00edmica llamada PFOS, que se utiliza para aumentar la resistencia a las manchas, se utiliza para fabricar cajas de pizza, bolsas de palomitas de ma\u00edz, alfombras y telas, y se sabe que contribuye a los trastornos del desarrollo, el c\u00e1ncer y las enfermedades de la tiroides.<\/p>\n<p>El hecho de que el Congreso no haya actualizado las leyes de seguridad qu\u00edmica de la d\u00e9cada de 1970 ha resultado en una regulaci\u00f3n d\u00e9bil de los PBT, dejando a las agencias gubernamentales sin autoridad para regular incluso los qu\u00edmicos m\u00e1s da\u00f1inos.<\/p>\n<p>El proyecto de ley de Merkley cuenta con el apoyo de Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, una coalici\u00f3n de 450 organizaciones y empresas que trabajan para reformar las leyes obsoletas sobre sustancias qu\u00edmicas t\u00f3xicas. Tambi\u00e9n cuenta con el apoyo de BizNGO, una coalici\u00f3n de empresas y organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), incluidas Staples, Dignity Health, Perkins+Will y Construction Specialties, Inc., que trabajan para cambiar el mercado hacia productos qu\u00edmicos m\u00e1s seguros.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR &ndash; Pressing federal regulators for immediate action, Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley today stood with health care professionals to urge Congress to pass legislation that would protect America&rsquo;s families from some of the most harmful chemicals identified by scientists. 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