[CPEO-MEF] perchlorate update

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

From: 	Laura Olah <cswab@merr.com>

FDA Study Supports a Low Federal Perchlorate Standard

According to an article in InsideEPA.com this week, new FDA data
suggests that EPA's national drinking water standard for perchlorate
should not exceed state standards.  A Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
study shows that widespread perchlorate contamination in food is
evidence that EPA must set a national drinking water standard for the
rocket fuel chemical that is more stringent than most state-set standards.

The newly-released FDA research, known as the Total Diet Study, is the
first comprehensive look at perchlorate in food, and shows a wide
variety of contaminated food.  The study, published earlier this month
in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, found
that across a wide range of age groups, perchlorate exposure from food
consumption ranged from 0.08 to 0.39 micrograms per kilogram (ug/kg)
body weight per day. For two-year old children, the study found an
average intake from food of 0.35 -- 0.39 ug/kg.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Hilda Solis (D-CA) and Albert Wynn (D-MD),
are also trying to push a bill through Congress that would require EPA
to set the perchlorate MCL by a date certain. While the bill, H.R. 1747,
passed out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee in 2007, a committee
aide says it has not yet been placed on the full committee's calendar
for action.



From:
Laura Olah, Executive Director
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
E12629 Weigand's Bay South
Merrimac, WI  53561
(608)643-3124
Email: info@cswab.org
Website: www.cswab.org


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