[CPEO-MEF] "Greer" perchlorate study questioned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Key study on safety of chemical disputed
Ingredient in rocket fuel taints many Inland water supplies

By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
June 3, 2005

Five years ago, a research team recruited seven people to drink water 
laced with tiny amounts of a rocket-fuel chemical that has contaminated 
many Inland drinking-water supplies.

In sufficient doses, the chemical -- perchlorate -- can impair thyroid 
function and result in neurological impairment of fetuses and babies, 
metabolic disorders and other problems.

The researchers, backed by a grant from the industries that make and use 
perchlorate, concluded that the infinitesimal amounts in their test had 
no effect on the healthy adults who signed on for the two-week study.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_D_perch03.eac43.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org


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