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Protect Children: Pass the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act (KSCA)
Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal, supports 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 Snake-oil Vigilantes: http://www.BreastImplantAwareness.or...WatchWatch.htm www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/Snake-oil.htm http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o...aign_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 support 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 support 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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