[CPEO-MEF] Children's health panels "blasts" EPA on perchlorate standards

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials Blast EPA on Perchlorate Standards
Federal and state experts say the new goal for the toxic contaminant 
will put children at risk.

By Marla Cone
Los Angeles Times
March 16, 2006

Warning that babies are especially vulnerable, a federal panel of 
scientists has lambasted the Environmental Protection Agency's health 
goal for a toxic chemical that has widely contaminated drinking water 
and foods, particularly in Southern California.

The EPA's new goal for perchlorate, an ingredient of solid rocket fuel, 
"is not supported by the underlying science and can result in exposures 
that pose neurodevelopmental risks in early life," wrote Melanie Marty 
of California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, who 
chairs the EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee.

The letter from the committee of 26 scientists, sent to EPA 
Administrator Stephen L. Johnson on March 8, warned the agency that it 
is putting babies at unnecessary risk of neurological damage. The EPA's 
interim goal for perchlorate, announced in January, "does not protect 
infants and should be lowered," the scientists said in their letter.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-perchlorate16mar16,1,4186562.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

THE FULL CHPAC LETTER MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/whatwe_recomm.htm#10


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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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