BigChem Poisoning Everybody Everywhere, For Profit

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World 'facing flood of new toxins'


The world needs to prepare for a flood of potentially dangerous new pollutants, an internationalexpert in environmental chemistry has warned.

Dr Susan Richardson of the University of South Carolina will tell the CleanUp 2015 Conference inMelbourne tomorrow that new contaminants, some of which are just as – or more – toxic than'traditional' pollutants like heavy metals, are already finding their way into the world's rivers, lakes,groundwater and drinking water.

The new toxins arise from sources such as artificial sweeteners, nanomaterials, perfumes, medicaldrugs, hormones, sunscreens, flame re ants, non*stick coatings, pesticide breakdown products,hospital wastes, and the by*products of detergents, disinfectants and swimming pool cleansers.

Left undetected and untreated, they can be hazardous to humans, with some already linked toconditions such as cancer, obesity, lower intelligence and infertility, Dr Richardson says.

"The world is no longer dealing with the 'same old, same old' contaminants," she explains.

"The listof new ones keeps growing, with ionic liquids and prions being among the most recent."

Ionic liquids are used as "green chemistry" to replace traditional solvents in cleaning products, buttheir effects are still largely unknown.

Prions – molecules that are highly resistant to disinfection – are known to cause 'mad cow disease',chronic wasting disease in deer and Creutzfeldt*Jakob disease as well as kuru in humans.

"Algal toxins are also an increasing concern – an algal bloom in Ohio, US, last year shut down thedrinking water system for the whole city.

Such blooms are expected to increase as more nitrogenmakes its way into our wastewater and rivers," she says.Dr Richardson explains that many of the new contaminants arise from common household productslike cleansers and furnishings, personal care products, food packaging, and the medical as well asrecreational drugs we excrete from our bodies.

"These products get washed off in the shower or flushed down the toilet and travel to wastewaterplants. Some of them become toxic once they react with the chlorine or chloramine with which thewater is treated," she says.

"It's bad news because our wastewater treatments, which are designed to remove 'traditional' waste,cannot treat these toxins efficiently.

There is no one* size *fits *all way to clean up all of them."One example is the failure to remove NMDA, a carcinogenic disinfection by*product.

"Reverseosmosis – the same process that removes salt from water – was used to treat NMDA, but the9/14/2015 World 'facing flood of new toxins' compound was so small that it passed through the filter. As a result, a half or less of the NMDA isremoved."

Currently, Dr Richardson and her team are researching better ways to detect these contaminants.

"Assome of them are very difficult to treat, it may be more effective to remove the 'precursor' molecules before they can react with chlorine or chloramine in waste water ponds and turn toxic.

"This means that we need to 'catch' them sooner.

"Meantime, the world needs to become much more aware of these emerging contaminants andactively look for them in our waters. While we may not know the ill effects of some of them, it maybe too late to stop those effects once they are unleashed."

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-world-toxins.html

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When eating fish is a health hazard

Fish farmed or caught near the world's great industrial growth areas run the risk of spreading toxic contamination up the food chain and poisoning consumers.

"Food safety is currently one of the major public health issues in the world – and 'chemical food contaminants' are among the three key global food safety concerns," he says.

"The Pearl River Delta (PRD) region typifies the rapid industrialisation that is taking place in many regions around the world. Its waters are affected by mining in the catchment, but overuse of antibiotics and drugs by the populace, by industrial discharges containing heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium and mercury, toxic chemicals and hydrocarbons.

"As a result, a wide range of toxins find their way into food production systems.

Most of the fish consumed in the PRD are farmed fish, which are highly susceptible to toxic chemicals discharged nearby. Seaborne plastic residues commonly found inshore act as magnets that absorb toxic chemicals, and subsequently transfer to fish. Feeding farmed fish with contaminated trash (less desirable) fish and fishmeal (commonly derived from trash fish) also contributes to adverse human health effects.

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-fish-health-hazard.html

Polluted China is what USA would become if Repugs defunded, killed EPA, etc. Thanks, Repug s. the planet and its people for BigCorp profit.

Love Canals, Houston ship channels, Gowanus canals everywhere

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when the nasty stuff in your bathroom products washes down the drain




http://grist.org/living/this-infogra...=daily-horizon

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Pesticides Tied to Childhood Cancers

Childhood exposure to indoor insecticides is associated with an increased risk for certain childhood cancers, a new study has found.

Researchers reviewed 16 studies of children exposed to indoor pesticides, including professional pest control services, indoor flea foggers, flea and tick pet collars, and various ready-to-use roach and ant sprays. The analysis, in Pediatrics, included 7,400 cancer cases matched with 9,437 healthy control subjects.

Exposure to indoor, but not outdoor, residential insecticides was associated with a 47 percent increased risk for childhood leukemia and a 43 percent increased risk for childhood lymphomas. Outdoor pesticides used as weed killers were associated with a 26 percent increased risk for brain tumors.

The authors acknowledge that the small number of studies included in the review is a major weakness of the analysis, and emphasize that these are increases in the relative risks for diseases that are not common to begin with.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well...dhood-cancers/

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Chemical exposure linked to rising diabetes, obesity risks

Emerging evidence ties endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure to two of the biggest public health threats facing society - diabetes and obesity,

Society's groundbreaking 2009 report, which examined the state of scientific evidence on endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and the risks posed to human health. In the ensuing years, additional research has found that exposure is associated with increased risk of developing diabetes and obesity. Mounting evidence also indicates EDC exposure is connected to infertility, hormone-related cancers, neurological issues and other disorders.

EDCs contribute to health problems by mimicking, blocking or otherwise interfering with the body's natural hormones. By hijacking the body's chemical messengers, EDCs can alter the way cells develop and grow.

Known EDCs include bisphenol A (BPA) found in food can linings and cash register receipts, phthalates found in plastics and cosmetics, flame re ants and pesticides. The chemicals are so common that nearly every person on Earth has been exposed to one or more.

An economic analysis published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in March estimated that EDC exposure likely costs the European Union €157 billion ($209 billion) a year in actual health care expenses and lost earning potential.

"The evidence is more definitive than ever before - EDCs disrupt hormones in a manner that harms human health,"

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-cel092515.php

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We're Surrounded by Way More Chemicals Than We Thought, and These Doctors Say We're Screwed

A team of doctors, researchers, and clinicians from across the globe have teamed up to send a loud message to policymakers: More must be done to protect people from the toxic chemicals that endanger health—and soon.

detrimental health effects caused by even small exposure to common chemicals like the ones found in pesticides, plastics, and air pollution. The health problems are even greater for babies exposed in the womb, who face increased risks of cancer, reduced cognitive function, and even miscarriage or stillbirth.

"We are drowning our world in untested and unsafe chemicals," said lead author Gian Carlo Di Renzo in a statement, "and the price we are paying in terms of our reproductive health is of serious concern."

The organization cited concerns about the sharp increase over the past four decades in chemical manufacturing, which continues to grow by more than 3 percent every year. Some 30,000 pounds of chemicals were manufactured or imported for every person in the United States in 2012 alone—a whopping 9.5 trillion pounds in total. Annually, the FIGO authors write, chemical manufacturing leads to 7 million deaths and billions in health care costs.

These numbers, they argue, are likely underestimated, and the problem is getting worse—especially in poor communities that often have higher levels of toxic exposure and in developing countries that bear the brunt of the global industrial emissions.

http://www.motherjones.com/environme...ened-pollution

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Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s

A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter.

The authors examined the dietary data of 36,400 Americans between 1971 and 2008 and the physical activity data of 14,419 people between 1988 and 2006. They grouped the data sets together by the amount of food and activity, age, and BMI.

They found a very surprising correlation: A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quan ies of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher. In other words, people today are about 10 percent heavier than people were in the 1980s, even if they follow the exact same diet and exercise plans.

“Our study results suggest that if you are 25, you’d have to eat even less and exercise more than those older, to prevent gaining weight,” Jennifer Kuk, a professor of kinesiology and health science at Toronto’s York University, said in a statement. “However, it also indicates there may be other specific changes contributing to the rise in obesity beyond just diet and exercise.”

Just what those other changes might be, though, are still a matter of hypothesis. In an interview, Kuk proffered three different factors that might be making harder for adults today to stay thin.

First, people are exposed to more chemicals that might be weight-gain inducing. Pesticides, flame re ants, and the substances in food packaging might all be altering our hormonal processes and tweaking the way our bodies put on and maintain weight.

Second, the use of prescription drugs has risen dramatically since the ‘70s and ‘80s. Prozac, the first blockbuster SSRI, came out in 1988. Antidepressants are now one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the U.S., and many of themhave been linked to weight gain.

Finally, Kuk and the other study authors think that the microbiomes of Americans might have somehow changed between the 1980s and now. It’s well known that some types of gut bacteria make a person more prone to weight gain and obesity. Americans are eating more meat than they were a few decades ago, and many animal products are treated with hormones and antibiotics in order to promote growth. All that meat might be changing gut bacteria in ways that are subtle, at first, but add up over time. Kuk believes the proliferation of artificial sweeteners could also be playing a role.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/?single_page=true

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We're flushing all these antidepressants into our water. How big is the problem?

As pharmaceuticals taint rivers and lakes, scientists search for solutions.

There’s no way around it, the headlines are disturbing.

And they come, not from tabloids or click-bait blogs, but from papers published in scientific journals.

They describe fish and birds responding with altered behavior and reproductive systems to antidepressants, diabetes medication, and other psychoactive or hormonally active drugs at concentrations found in the environment.

They report on opioids, amphetamines and other pharmaceuticals found in treated drinking water; antibiotics in groundwater capable of altering naturally occurring bacterial communities; and over-the-counter and prescription drugs found in water leaching from municipal landfills.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/11/948981...ater-pollution

and bottled water makes it worse: plastic pollution, and the water in the bottles is most often unprocessed water straight out of the sources that water utilities use. Bottled water is a huge, dishonest (bottled water is better than tap water) marketing scam.

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34000 Pesticides and 600 Chemicals Later: Our Food Supply is No Better for It

Billions of pounds of pesticides and herbicides used has resulted in:

• Pesticide exposure causes farm-workers to suffer more chemical-related injuries and illnesses than other work-forces. This has led farmers to suffer from organ damage and cancer, leading to numerous lawsuits against biotechnology and pesticide-creating companies like Monsanto.

• About 95% of the country relies on groundwater for drinking water, yet it is often contaminated by pesticides, especially in agricultural areas.

• Pesticide ‘drift’ is common now. This means that in places like California, you can’t take a deep breathe without inhaling pesticide chemicals.
• More babies are being born with preventable birth defects due to pesticide exposure.

• UC Berkeley has found that children are being exposed to pesticides even before they eat their first apple or munch on their first carrot. That’s because the chemicals are so prevalently used, they show up in breast milk of mothers.

• General population illnesses are on the rise, including asthma, autism and learning disabilities, birth defects and reproductive dysfunction, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and several types of cancer. Their connection to pesticide exposure becomes more evident with every new study conducted.

• Most of our food is laced with pesticide residues that cannot be washed off. Only organically-grown food is free from this concern.

• Genetically engineered crops developed and marketed to withstand copious herbicide and pesticide spraying are causing millions of acres of super weeds to grow, as well as causing super bugs which are resistant to the very chemicals which were created to destroy them.

• Pollinating insects which help to make sure we have a tremendous variety of foods have been absolutely decimated by chemical herbicides and pesticides. Bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects are dying at an unprecedented rate.

• Even our ocean life is being contaminated by pesticide run off. Fish, crab, seals, and even micro-algae have been affected by the amount of chemicals we use to ‘grow food.’

• Agricultural practices that rely on this type of chemical addiction are stripping the soil of nutrients with remarkable implications. They are devastating the nutritional value of crops, making dramatic changes at an alarming rate — in less than a lifetime, to be specific. As an example, there has been a 41.1 to 100% decrease in vitamin A in 6 foods: apple, banana, broccoli, onion, potato, and tomato. Of them, both onion and potato saw a 100% loss of vitamin A in a 48-year span from, 1951-1999.

Despite these myriad concerns, the US Environmental Protection Agency gives the green light to a new concoction of health-harming chemicals used by Big Ag companies seemingly every month.

http://naturalsociety.com/34000-pest...better-for-it/

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They Profit, We Die: The Perils of Chemical-Intensive Agriculture

Our food system is in big trouble. It’s in big trouble because the global agritech/agribusiness sector is poisoning it, us and the environment with its pesticides, herbicides, GMOs and various other chemical inputs. The Rockefeller clan exported the petrochemical intensive ‘green revolution’ around the world with the aim of ripping up indigenous agriculture to cement its hegemony over global agriculture and to help the US create food deficit regions and thus use agriculture as a tool of foreign policy.

This was only made possible and continues to be made possible because of lavish funds, slick PR, compliant politicians and scientists and the undermining and capture of regulatory and policy decision-making bodies that supposedly serve the public interest.

For example, writing in the British newspaper The Guardian earlier this year, Arthur Nelson noted that as many as 31 pesticides with a value running into billions of pounds could have been banned in the EU because of potential health risks, if a blocked EU paper on hormone-mimicking chemicals had been acted upon.

The science paper that was seen by The Guardian recommends ways of identifying and categorising the endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that scientists link to a rise in foetal abnormalities, genital mutations, infertility and adverse health effects ranging from cancer to IQ loss. Nelson writes that Commission sources say that the paper was buried by top EU officials under pressure from big chemical firms which use EDCs in toiletries, pesticides, plastics and cosmetics, despite an annual health cost that studies peg at hundreds of millions of euros.

Newton provides a wealth of referenced data and detailed insight into the importance of soils and their mineral compositions and links their depletion to the ‘green revolution’. In turn, these depleted soils cannot help but lead to mass malnourishment. This in itself it quite revealing given that proponents of the green revolution claim it helped reduced malnutrition. Newton advocates a well-thought out approach to agriculture based on agroecology, a sound understanding of soil and the eradication of poisonous chemical inputs.

Such an approach is required globally if we are to move towards a nutritional, healthy food system that respects soil balance, environmental integrity and ultimately people. Failure to do so will result in the continued destruction of soils, environment, food and human health. And failure to expose and challenge the corruption, lobbying, back-room ‘free trade’ deals and revolving door that exists between agribusiness and decision-making/regulatory bodies will result in these corporations continuing to prosper at everyone else’s expense.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/...e-agriculture/

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I harvested my cheap non gmo corn. Turned out well enough I plan on more next year. Neighbors ten miles away didn't turn out so well. They took a 20% hit from bugs. And that was after spraying for them. Fyi, I plan on putting a double rate of dry insecticide down at planting next year. Gmos don't require any. This stuff is toxic enough that I need to wear a respirator and gloves. Welcome back 1975.

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Monsanto’s weedkiller is contaminating popular wines and beers

In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic.

In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sample tested, even independent beers.

Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all found to be positive for glyphosate in 2016.

We tested further and released new findings last week of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world,

the majority of which are from the U.S., and in batch test results in American beer.

What do these events all have in common? Monsanto’s Roundup.

French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini released shocking findings in January of 2018 that of

all the brands of Roundup they tested, over a dozen had high levels of arsenic—

over five times the allowable limit along with dangerous levels of heavy metals.

Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off, and they have been proven to be

neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors, and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.

The wine brands tested included Gallo, Beringer, Mondavi, Barefoot and Sutter Home.

Beer brands tested included Budweiser, Busch, Coors, Michelob, Miller Lite, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, Peak Organic and Sierra Nevada.

“You can’t constantly use a product and think that it’s not going to have an effect. Glyphosate is something that’s made to kill.”

So how does glyphosate contaminate organic wines and beers?

Drift, polluted irrigation water, soil, and through a new phenomena: pesticide rains.

Glyphosate and other toxic chemical particles remain in evaporated water or dust cloudswhich form into rain and can contaminate vineyards and grain crops thousands of miles away.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/monsantos-weedkiller-contaminating-popular-wines-beers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

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Booboo es about pesticides and then es about gmo plants that don’t need pesticide

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Booboo es about pesticides and then es about gmo plants that don’t need pesticide

You Lie

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Children May Be Eating Cereal Laced With Monsanto's Toxic Weed Killer


The probable carcinogen glyphosate has been detected in popular cereals, but the EPA is ready to approve its use for 15 more years.

Quaker Oats “Life” and “Squares” cereals.

Gerber and Beechnut baby oatmeal.

Cheerios.

Store brand “O” cereals from Target, Safeway, Walmart, Trader Joe’s and Kroger.

All those products were contaminated with glyphosate (often sold as Roundup) in recent independent testing conducted by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH).

Sadly, the results are not really surprising.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have found contamination of similar foods

as have the nonprofit organizations Moms Across America and Food Democracy Now.

However,

given that the FDA has tested fewer than 100 products (as far as we can tell), most of which were honey, these results are important.

A compilation by the National Ins ute for Occupational Safety and Health shows that

glyphosate in laboratory tests

has damaged genes,

caused birth defects,

reduced sperm production,

damaged the liver and kidney, and

disrupted sex hormone function.

Both the World Health Organization and the California Environmental Protection Agency identify glyphosate as a cancer-causing chemical.

CEH is especially concerned about the hormone disruption because even tiny amounts of glyphosate can have these kinds of effects. And there’s more.

https://www.alternet.org/food/childr...ic-weed-killer

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EWG tested more than a dozen brands of oat-based foods to give Americans information about dietary exposures that government regulators are keeping secret. In April, internal emails obtained by the nonprofit US Right to Know revealed that the Food and Drug Administration has been testing food for glyphosate for two years and has found “a fair amount,” but the FDA has not released its findings.

Type of Food	Product Name	Glyphosate (ppb)*
Sample 1	Sample 2	Sample 3
Granola	Nature's Path Organic Honey Almond granola	ND**	ND
Back to Nature Classic Granola	620	170
Quaker Simply Granola Oats, Honey, Raisins & Almonds	430	400
Back to Nature Banana Walnut Granola Clusters	30	30	340
Nature Valley Granola Protein Oats 'n Honey	220	170
KIND Vanilla, Blueberry Clusters with Flax Seeds	50	60
Instant Oats	Giant Instant Oatmeal, Original Flavor	760
Simple Truth Organic Instant Oatmeal, Original	ND	ND
Quaker Dinosaur Eggs, Brown Sugar, Instant Oatmeal	620	780
Great Value Original Instant Oatmeal	450
Umpqua Oats, Maple Pecan	220	220
Market Pantry Instant Oatmeal, Strawberries & Cream	120	520
Oat Breakfast Cereal	Kashi Heart to Heart Organic Honey Toasted cereal	ND	ND
Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal	490	470	530
Lucky Charms****	400	230
Barbara's Multigrain Spoonfuls, Original, Cereal	340	300
Kellogg’s Cracklin’ Oat Bran oat cereal	250	120
Snack Bar	Cascadian Farm Organic Harvest Berry, granola bar	ND	ND
KIND Oats & Honey with Toasted Coconut	ND	120
Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars, Oats 'n Honey	340	120
Quaker Chewy Chocolate Chip granola bar	120	160
Kellogg’s Nutrigrain Soft Baked Breakfast Bars, Strawberry	30	80
Whole Oats	365 Organic Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats	ND	ND
Quaker Steel Cut Oats	530	290
Quaker Old Fashioned Oats	390	1100	1300
Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats	300	ND
Nature's Path Organic Old Fashioned Organic Oats	30	20
Whole Foods Bulk Bin conventional rolled oats	10	40
Bob's Red Mill Organic Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (4 samples tested)	ND	10	20, 20***

Source: EWG, from tests by Eurofin Analytical Laboratories

*EWG's child-protective health benchmark for daily exposure to glyphosate in food is 160 ppb.
** ND = none detected
*** Two product samples tested both had 20 ppb glyphosate concentration.
**** Lucky Charms Frosted Toasted Oat Cereal with Marshmallows. Marshmallows were manually removed from the samples prior to shipping to the lab and testing for glyphosate.

Each year, more than 250 million pounds of glyphosate are sprayed on American crops, primarily on “Roundup-ready” corn and soybeans genetically engineered to withstand the herbicide.

But when it comes to the food we eat, the highest glyphosate levels are not found in products made with GMO corn.

https://www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/glyphosateincereal/#.W3b_Y-hKiUk

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You Don’t Need to Worry About Roundup in Your Breakfast Cereal

No one wants to eat Monsanto’s weed killer. But a new report dramatically exaggerates the danger of the trace amounts detected.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/08...rry-about.html

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Re ed Boutons doing Re ed Boutons things...fear mongering got.

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Pesticide Studies Won E.P.A.’s Trust, Until Trump’s Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’

Backed by agrochemical companies, the current administration and Congress are moving to curb the role of human health studies in regulation.

Trump administration wants to restrict how human studies like Chamacos are used in rule-making. A government proposal this year, called Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, could stop them from being used to justify regulating pesticides, lead and pollutants like soot, and undermine foundational research behind national air-quality rules. The E.P.A., which has funded these kinds of studies, is now labeling many of them “secret science.”

But weeks after Donald J. Trump was elected president, CropLife America, the main agrochemical trade group, pe ioned the E.P.A. to “halt regulatory decisions that are highly influenced and/or determined by the results of epidemiological studies” unless universities were forced to share more of their data.

“It is a naked attempt to use a false claim that something nefarious is going on with these studies in an effort to allow industry to challenge conclusions that are not in their favor,”

“There is a breadth of information available on the potential adverse neurodevelopmental effects in infants and children as a result of prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos,” the agency concluded in 2016,

The pesticide industry’s reaction was loud and intense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/b...er=rss&emc=rss

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nicely done.

"You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you."
Do you want to drink some? We have some here.

"I'd be happy to actually. Not really but, I know it wouldn't hurt me."
Interviewer (im paraphrasing) if you say so let me get you some now

"No i'm not stupid. People try to commit suicide with it and fail fairly regularly. It's not dangerous to humans."

So are you ready to drink some?

"No I'm not an idiot."

Then pouts and storms out of the interview.
What a hypocritical .

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NATIONWIDE CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT TARGETS DUPONT, CHEMOURS, 3M, AND OTHER MAKERS OF PFAS CHEMICALS

A CLASS ACTION lawsuit against 3M, DuPont, and Chemours was filed this week on behalf of everyone in the United States who has been exposed to PFAS chemicals.

The suit was brought by Kevin Hardwick, an Ohio firefighter, but “seeks relief on behalf of a nationwide class of everyone in the United States who has a detectable level of PFAS chemicals in their blood.”

In addition to 3M, DuPont, and its spinoff, Chemours, the suit names eight other companies that produce the toxic chemicals, which are used to makefirefighting foam, nonstick cookware, waterproof clothing, and many other products.

While much of the litigation around PFAS has focused on PFOA and PFOS, this suit targets the entire class of PFAS chemicals, including “the newer ‘replacement’ chemicals, such as GenX.”

Rather than suing for cash penalties, the suit seeks to force the companies to create an independent panel of scientists “tasked with thoroughly studying and confirming the health effects that can be caused by contamination of human blood with multiple PFAS materials.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/06/...icals-lawsuit/

If this suit goes to the rigged SCOTUS, in honor of Class Action Nazi "no class for you" Scalia, the 5 s will say the poisoned people don't form a class so they have to fight BigChem companies individually, effectively slamming shut the court house door.

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I chatted over lunch with firefighter who said a lot firefighters don't live long after retirement because they've inhaled so many toxic chemicals for years while fighting fires. What about the breathing masks? he said they help but aren't 100% effective.

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Oregon’s attorney general announced a nearly $700 million settlement Thursday with the biotech giant Monsanto for its alleged role in polluting the state over the course of decades with toxic compounds known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opb...len-rosenblum/

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Monsanto is known today for making the popular Roundup weed-killer, but from the 1930s to just before they were banned in 1979, Monsanto was the sole manufacturer of PCBs in the United States. Since at least 1937, the company knew they were harmful. The chemicals were distributed throughout Oregon in a variety of products, including paint, caulking and electrical equipment.