9,000 EPA Scientists Call for an End to Compromising Safety
In 1996, under the Food Quality Protection Act, Congress gave the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 10 years to complete its assessment of the health impacts of hundreds of pesticides being used in homes, gardens and agriculture. August 3, 2006 marks the end of that 10-year period. Although the EPA apparently plans to have its review of most of the carbamates complete by that date, thousands of scientists within the Agency have expressed serious concern that the evaluations are incomplete and that the EPA is threatening to allow the continued use of toxic pesticides despite ample information showing that they are too hazardous to be used safely.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072606HA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072606HA.shtml
rudkla - 27. Jul, 14:00
