[CPEO-MEF] California may re-visit perchlorate health goal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water Standard Scrutinized

By Tony Burchyns
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
November 21, 2006

State health officials may revisit the "public health goal" for 
perchlorate in drinking water after reviewing recent research that shows 
even minute traces of the rocket-fuel chemical lowers essential thyroid 
hormones in women causing metabolic problems and neurological damage to 
fetuses.

The study, released in October by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, is under review at the California Office of Environmental 
Health Hazard Assessment.

Based on that review, the environmental agency could lower the 6 parts 
per billion standard it set in 2004, said spokesman Alan Hirsch.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=199380

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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>
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