Profits over human health? What a surprise (not)

PEORIA -- Here's a link to an important article by Clare Howard, an award winning journalist formerly with the Peoria Journal Star, now a free lance writer. Read it and worry.

 

Could an Obscure Federal Rule Allow the Government to Favor Corporate Profit over Human Health? Apparently, Yes.

 For more than 30 years, the federal government has relied on an arcane rule for approving chemicals used in everything from food packaging, drugs and medical implants to pesticides and electronics. Atrazine, bisphenol A and Vioxx came to us via this “Good Laboratory Practice” rule. If you parse the regulation and its track record, you’ll find built-in bias for industry-funded research designed to protect profitable markets, not take precautionary measures to minimize risk to people and the environment.

 Read the article here:

or here:   http://100r.org/2012/05/good-practices-vs-good-science/