Chemical Industry Lends Support to Reform

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Here is something we have wanted for a long time. Safer products.

Leaders Willing to Give EPA Health Data, Which Would Allow Safety to Be

Determined

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080802566.\

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In a reversal, chemical industry leaders said last week they are joining

environmentalists, public health groups and consumer advocates in seeking more

robust federal regulation of chemicals.

For the first time, chemical manufacturers said they are willing to furnish the

Environmental Protection Agency with health and exposure data they have gathered

that are related to their chemicals, and to allow the agency to determine

whether the chemicals are safe to use.

They said tougher government regulation is the best way to reassure consumers

about the health impact of various chemicals.more at link above.