Sunday, July 24, 2011

EPA program on children's toxic exposure "flawed"

EPA program on children's toxic exposure "flawed"
http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog//1536/

"According to a new report released yesterday, efforts to protect children's health have been fatally blocked by American industry's refusal to submit information on the commercial use of chemicals.

In a scathing critique of a voluntary reporting strategy launched with great fanfare under the Clinton administration — and quietly killed in recent years — the EPA's Inspector General wrote that the Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program was a bust."
 

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