url for GAO Report: Biasing Chemical Assessments - hiding adverse effects

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Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review

Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA's Integrated Risk

Information System

GAO-08-440, March 7, 2008*

Summary <http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-08-440>

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Highlights Page <http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08440high.pdf>

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Full Report <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08440.pdf>

(PDF, 84 pages)

Accessible Text <http://www.gao.gov/htext/d08440.html>

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*White House blocked EPA studies, GAO reports*

Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/30/MN9A10DOR1.DTL

(04-30) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- A congressional watchdog agency has

found that White House officials repeatedly intervened in the

government's scientific process for assessing the health risks of toxic

chemicals, prompting Sen. Barbara Boxer to threaten giving Congress

control of the program.

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*USDA isn't on board with beef industry's downer cow ban*

By BEN GOAD

Washington Bureau

10:00 PM PDT on Tuesday, April 29, 2008

http://www.pe.com/localnews/politics/stories/PE_News_Local_D_downer30.3c23b75.ht\

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WASHINGTON - A week after the meat industry called for a ban on downer

cows in the nation's food supply, the U.S. Agriculture Department has

not agreed to change a policy that allows some sick or injured cows to

end up on dinner tables.

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*Livestock lobby meddled in study, authors say*

By PERRY BEEMAN

REGISTER STAFF WRITER

April 30, 2008

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/NEWS/804300\

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Livestock interests tried to disrupt a wide-ranging study of their

industry by threatening to yank financing for universities and

scientists who assisted, a Pew Commission report released Tuesday

alleges. The 2-year study by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm

Animal Production concluded that the industry needs a vast overhaul that

includes banning the use of antibiotics as a growth stimulant and giving

local governments zoning power over often controversial developments.

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*New Policy Prolongs EPA Chemical Reviews*

*Other Agencies Can Now Offer Secret Input*

By Lee

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, April 30, 2008; A07

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902559.\

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On behalf of industrial interests so well protected by the EPA, let us

accept the fiction that autism is a mystery.

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