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TalkingDog

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Sat Apr 13, 2013, 09:12 AM Apr 2013

Unacceptable levels: A documentary about what goes in our bodies

http://www.unacceptablelevels.com/



Currently, we have over 80,000 chemicals in our system of commerce, and some of those are going straight into our bodies. More importantly, not just us, but our unborn children as well. Due to this constant exposure, we have approximately 200 synthetic industrial compounds that are interacting with our cells every single day. Until recently, modern science really didn’t understand what that could mean for all of us in the long run, but that dynamic is changing.
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Unacceptable levels: A documentary about what goes in our bodies (Original Post) TalkingDog Apr 2013 OP
Lautenberg to push bill to regulate chemicals proverbialwisdom Apr 2013 #1

proverbialwisdom

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1. Lautenberg to push bill to regulate chemicals
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 10:57 AM
Apr 2013
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130410_Lautenberg_to_push_bill_to_regulate_chemicals.html

Lautenberg to push bill to regulate chemicals

Sandy Bauers, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 3:01 AM


Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.), plans Wednesday to introduce what he hopes will be signature legislation for his final term in office - a bill aimed at ensuring the safety of the many chemicals that Americans come in contact with every day.

The measure would give regulatory officials the authority to evaluate the safety of the flame retardants in couches, the phthalate compounds responsible for the smell of new vinyl shower curtains, the bisphenol A that protects food in cans, and other chemicals of concern in common household products.

Lautenberg's legislation would update the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA. Environmental groups, public-health advocates, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials and the chemical industry have called for reform.

But the bill will likely face heavy opposition from industry. Scott Jensen, a spokesman for the American Chemistry Council, said the version of the legislation he is familiar with has "serious deficiencies" that would make a complicated program "even more complex."

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Lautenberg has been working on TSCA reform since 2005. Last year, his proposed legislation gained committee approval. But it passed out of committee late in the congressional schedule and never made it to the floor.

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