Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 A recent Journal Sentinel investigation found:-U.S. regulators promised a decade ago to screen more than 15,000chemicals for their effects on the endocrine system. As yet, not asingle screen has been done.-As the U.S. testing process remains grounded, hundreds of products havebeen banned in countries around the world.-It's impossible for consumers to know which products are made withthese dangerous compounds.-The federal government's assurances that bisphenol A is a safe chemicalare based on outdated and incomplete government studies and sciencemostly funded by the chemical industry.About The SeriesPART 1, Nov. 25: Congress ordered the federal government in 1996 tobegin testing and regulating certain chemicals suspected of causingcancer and a host of developmental problems. Eleven years later, not asingle compound has been put to that test.http://www.jsonline .com/story/ index.aspx? id=689731PART 2, Dec. 2: The federal government's assurances that a commonchemical is safe are based on outdated U.S. government studies andresearch heavily funded by the chemical industry.http://www.jsonline .com/story/ index.aspx? id=692145PART 3: Investors take aim at plastic productsCorporations under fire from within about chemical useBy CARY SPIVAKcspivak@journalsent inel.comPosted: Dec. 9, 2007http://www.jsonline .com/story/ index.aspx? id=694805 Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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