[CPEO-MEF] "Pollution - An industry sponsor might be behind that reassuring message."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Web site's agenda can be veiled by name

Pollution: An industry sponsor might be behind that reassuring message.

By Tom Pelton
Baltimore Sun 
December 25, 2004



When the news broke recently about federal researchers discovering a
rocket fuel chemical in milk sold in Maryland and elsewhere, readers
searching the Web sites of The Sun and other newspapers for information
about perchlorate were directed to another site, called the "Truth About
Perchlorate." 

This Web site, with its prominently placed link paid for by a group
called the Council on Water Quality, reassured readers that the low
levels of the pollutant found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
"have no measurable effect on the body." 

Regardless of whether that is true, the Council on Water Quality is not
an environmental or scientific group. It's part of a public relations
campaign by the nation's largest military contractor, Bethesda-based
Lockheed Martin, and manufacturers of perchlorate, which are trying to
minimize their costs to remove the pollutant from public water supplies. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-te.md.perchlorate25dec25,1,7677223.story?coll=bal-technology-headlines

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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