Re: [CPEO-MEF] GAO issues perchlorate overview

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon Refuses Test for Toxic Chemical

By ERICA WERNER
Washington Post/Associated Press
June 21, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon at times refused to conduct tests for a toxic 
chemical when environmental regulators said such tests were needed, 
congressional investigators said in a report Tuesday.

The report drew a stinging Pentagon response criticizing it as 
"factually incorrect and fundamentally flawed."

The General Accountability Office study of contamination from 
perchlorate - an ingredient in rocket fuel and other defense 
manufacturing that has been found to interfere with thyroid function - 
said it was found in at least 395 sites in 35 states.

The study said Defense Department activities are a leading cause of the 
contamination. It also said Pentagon policies require testing for the 
chemical only under limited circumstances, such as when there is a 
reasonable likelihood of human exposure.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101438.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
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