2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 16 Mar 2006 09:27:36 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Children's health panels "blasts" EPA on perchlorate standards
 
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


-- 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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