[CPEO-MEF] New Boxer-Feinstein perchlorate letter

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Boxer and Feinstein letter to EPA on Perchlorate

Author: Feinstein office
October 7, 2006

U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-CA) sent the 
following letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson:

Dear Administrator Johnson:

We are writing to request that the Environmental Protection Agency 
("EPA") immediately issue a perchlorate health advisory that addresses 
early life exposures and susceptibility issues and revise the Agency's 
perchlorate cleanup goal. EPA should also establish a drinking water 
standard that protects vulnerable pregnant women and children.

It is critical that EPA take these actions in light of a new study by 
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which shows that 
women in the United States regularly consume sufficient amounts of 
perchlorate to reduce their production of important thyroid hormones. 
This exposure can harm the health of adults and the mental development 
of infants. The CDC study shows that the perchlorate exposures that EPA 
thought were safe, can threaten public health.

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For the entire letter, see
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_43473.shtml

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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