I think if the proposition had required the state to set a level for ongoing exposure, that would be fine. But instead it tells the state that the way they have to do that is by determining the level of single dose that just barely doesn’t give birth defects and dividing by 1,000. This is a really rough proxy, and ignores things like how quickly different materials are shed from the body. Learning that they were using such a rough measurement mostly pushes me in the direction of ignoring their level and paying attention instead to the levels that the federal government sets.
(I also initially misunderstood the role of the 1000x adjustment and edited the post based on Facebook discussion)
To answer your question, if they instead had a divisor of 100 or 10 I would still be advocating to put very little weight on their limit.
I think if the proposition had required the state to set a level for ongoing exposure, that would be fine. But instead it tells the state that the way they have to do that is by determining the level of single dose that just barely doesn’t give birth defects and dividing by 1,000. This is a really rough proxy, and ignores things like how quickly different materials are shed from the body. Learning that they were using such a rough measurement mostly pushes me in the direction of ignoring their level and paying attention instead to the levels that the federal government sets.
(I also initially misunderstood the role of the 1000x adjustment and edited the post based on Facebook discussion)
To answer your question, if they instead had a divisor of 100 or 10 I would still be advocating to put very little weight on their limit.