What does the website say about any acute health effects from the product?

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Product Category Product Name What Product Does Warning (yes/no) What the Warning Says
Auto Products

Pesticides

Personal Care

Arts & Crafts

Inside the Home

Landscape & Yard

Home Maintenance

Pet Care

1. (5 points) Was this inventory difficult to complete? Why or why not?

2. (5 points) Are you surprised by the results of the inventory? If so, in what way?

Potentially Hazardous Products
1. 2. 3.

MSDS
3. (5 points) What does the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) describe?

4. (5 points) Who develops or prepares the MSDS?
5. (5 points) Does the MSDS provide any health effects or first aid information?
6. (5 points) Who is the primary audience for the MSDS?
7. (5 points) Are MSDS relevant to consumers?
Click the “Back” link on your browser to go back to the first product’s ranking and answer the following questions.

8. (5 points) What is the health rating for your product? (Note: Your product may not have a health rating. If it does not, choose another product that does. The health rating can be found under “Health Effects.”
9. (5 points) What does that rating mean?
10. (5 points) What is the flammability rating for your product?
11. (5 points) What does that rating mean?
12. (5 points) What is the reactivity rating for your product?
13. (5 points) What does that rating mean?

Now scroll up the site until you come to the section marked acute health effects and chronic health effects. Answer the following questions.

14. (5 points) What does the website say about any acute health effects from the product?

15. (5 points) What does the website say about any chronic health effects from the product?
16. (5 points) What is the difference between an acute and chronic health effect?

17. (5 points) Based on your research/analysis, how hazardous is the product?

Go back to the NIH website and research your other two products. If a product you selected is not listed, pick another product from your original list of eight. At the conclusion of this step in the exercise, you should have looked up and found results for 3 products.

18. (5 points) Rank order your 3 products based on your assessment of how hazardous they are and list below from most to least hazardous.

Hazardous Ranking
1.
2.
3.

19. (5 points) Explain you answer. Why did you choose the ranking that you did?
20. (5 points) How comprehensive do you feel the information provided by the website is regarding the hazardous nature of household products?

How does the vast movement of food from one nation to another benefit or potentially harm developing nations? Are there benefits of importing food to developed or wealthy nations?

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Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.
Do you know where your food comes from? Throughout history, self-sufficiency has been the norm for acquiring food such as grains, meats, fruits, and vegetables. People and nations grew their own food and traded only on a local level. Today, food trade between nations has intensified, food is shipped thousands of miles across the globe, and world trade in agricultural products exceeds $1 trillion annually.
Choose 1 of the foods from the following link that you may have in your fridge or pantry:
Click here for the list of foods and food information.
Complete the following:
• List and describe the food item, and include where it came from (check the label or Web site).
• Use this calculatorto determine how far it has traveled to you. Answer the following questions (use the Internet and CTU library to form your opinions):
1. How does the vast movement of food from one nation to another benefit or potentially harm developing nations? Are there benefits of importing food to developed or wealthy nations?
2. There is an “eat local” initiative developing throughout the United States and Europe. What are the benefits to buying fresh, local foods? Are there drawbacks? Do you buy local?
3. Can you live without the food item you chose? Is there a local substitute available?
4. Knowing what you do of how global food trade affects the global market and the economies of individual countries, explain your position on buying this food item in the future.

Describe impacts to both humans and to ecosystem structure and function. What steps are in place to eliminate the pollutant or to mitigate harm from the pollutant?

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Environmental Science 2-3 pages
Pollutants can harm ecosystem function and may also harm human health.
You will write an APA-style research paper about pollutants, their impacts, and mitigation of harmful effects. Include the following:
Select 1 example of an environmental pollutant from the following list: Acid precipitation/ Acid rain Smog DDT pesticide use Eutrophication Answer the following questions about the pollution problem that you chose: Describe the pollutant chosen and the source of the pollutants. Include both natural and human sources, as applicable. Is this a point-source pollutant or nonpoint-source pollutant? Explain. What are the harmful impacts of the pollution? Describe impacts to both humans and to ecosystem structure and function. What steps are in place to eliminate the pollutant or to mitigate harm from the pollutant? Describe examples of laws or regulations that apply to the pollution and its sources. Also, describe educational programs, technology, or other initiatives that are used to help control the pollution. Have the programs, best management practices, or regulations been effective in resolving harm from the pollutant? Give examples of progress, or explain with examples what more could be done.

Describe the pollutant chosen and the source of the pollutants. Include both natural and human sources, asapplicable.

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Pollutants can harm ecosystem function and may also harm human health.

You will write an APA-style research paper about pollutants, their impacts, and mitigation of harmful effects. Include the following:

  • Select 1 example of an environmental pollutant from the following list:
    • Acid precipitation/ Acid rain
    • Smog
    • DDT pesticide use
    • Eutrophication
  • Answer the following questions about the pollution problem that you chose:
    • Describe the pollutant chosen and the source of the pollutants. Include both natural and human sources, asapplicable.
      • Is this a point-source pollutant or nonpoint-source pollutant? Explain.
    • What are the harmful impacts of the pollution?
      • Describe impacts to both humans and to ecosystem structure and function.
    • What steps are in place to eliminate the pollutant or to mitigate harm from the pollutant?
      • Describe examples of laws or regulations that apply to the pollution and its sources.
      • Also, describeeducational programs, technology, or other initiatives that are used to help control the pollution.
    • Have the programs, best management practices, or regulations been effective in resolving harm from the pollutant?
      • Give examples of progress, or explain with examples what more could be done.