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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:26 AM
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Does anyone have a link to the article about the EPA director & pesticides
There was a really good article about how Johnson advocated testing on humans.
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:37 AM
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1. Here it is:
E.P.A. NOMINEE SUPPORTS TESTING OF PESTICIDES ON HUMAN SUBJECTS
Democratic Underground (3/12/2005) -- President Bush recently nominated Stephen L. Johnson, a 24-year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be the agency’s new administrator. Mr. Johnson has been the acting administrator since January, and prior to that oversaw the EPA office handling pesticides and other toxic substances.

. . .During President Clinton’s administration, the E.P.A. would not consider the results of controversial trials that tested pesticides on people. But after Mr. Bush was elected, Johnson changed the policy to permit consideration. . .However, a panel of scientists and ethicists convened by the E.P.A. in 1998 determined that these types of trials were unethical and scientifically unsuitable to estimate the safety of chemicals.

In 2001, the trials considered by the agency gave paid subjects doses of pesticides hundreds of times greater than levels that E.P.A. officials considered safe for the general public.. . . last year, Johnson strongly supported a study in which infants will be monitored for health impacts as they undergo exposure to toxic chemicals for a two-year period. . .Yet the E.P.A. acknowledges that pesticide exposure is a risk factor for childhood cancer and the early onset of asthma…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/03/12_epa.html
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:26 AM
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2. Thank you.
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