Saturday 2 February 2013

Chemical lobby: Secrecy keeps the lawsuits away

I, like you, hope that I can trust that the government will look
after my health and not allow any cancer-causing food into
our stores.
If they say Twinkies are safe, then I'll eat them. Actually
they're disgusting crap and it just goes to show how
bad chemicals enter our bodies and stay there. They also
rely on government cover ups. There's money in that.

checkit: Organic consumer

 White House Stalls Critical EPA Report Highlighting Chemical Dangers to Children

    By Sheila Kaplan

    Investigative Reporting Workshop, December 21, 2012

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A landmark Environmental Protection Agency report concluding that children exposed to toxic substances can develop learning disabilities, asthma and other health problems has been sidetracked indefinitely amid fierce opposition from the chemical industry.

America's Children and the Environment, Third Edition, is a sobering analysis of the way in which pollutants build up in children's developing bodies and the damage they can inflict.

The report is unpublished, but was posted on EPA's website in draft form in March 2011, marked "Do not Quote or Cite."  The report, which is fiercely contested by the chemical industry, was referred to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where it still languishes.