Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal, sup****ts mightily this bill:
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
We are very aware of the vast amount of PR the chemical industry buys
.... much of it disseminated through the fake skeptics and anti-science
team of Stephen Barrett and his S****-oil Vigilantes:
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/S****-oil.htm
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24973
The nation's toxic chemical regulatory law, the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA), is in drastic need of reform. TSCA is widely
regarded as the weakest of all major environmental laws on the books
today.
When passed 1976, the Act declared safe some 62,000 chemicals already
on the market, even though there were little or no data to sup****t
this policy. Since that time another 20,000 chemicals have been put
into commerce in the United States, also with little or no data to
sup****t their safety.
The human race is now polluted with hundreds of industrial chemicals
with little or no understanding of the consequences.
We are at a tipping point, where the pollution in people is
increasingly associated with a range of serious diseases and
conditions from childhood cancer, to autism, ADHD, learning deficits,
infertility, and birth defects. Yet even as our knowledge about the
link between chemical exposure and human disease grows, the government
has almost no authority to protect people from even the most hazardous
chemicals on the market.
Specifically, the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act:
requires that industrial chemicals be safe for infants, kids and other
vulnerable groups;
requires that new chemicals be safety tested before they are sold;
requires chemical manufacturers to test and prove that the 62,000
chemicals already on the market that have never been tested are safe
in order for them to remain in commerce;
requires EPA to review "priority" chemicals, those which are found in
people, on an expedited schedule;
requires regular biomonitoring to determine what chemicals are in
people and in what amounts;
requires regular updates of health and safety data and provides EPA
with clear authority to request additional information and tests;
provides incentives for manufacturers to further reduce health
hazards;
requires EPA to promote safer alternatives and alternatives to animal
testing;
protects state and local rights; and
requires that this information be publicly available
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