[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE - Is it in Utah's food

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

ABC 4 Investigation: Is toxic perchlorate in Utah's food?
	
Reported by: Terry Wood
ABC 4 News (Salt Lake City, UT)
February 5, 2008

For sixty years, Rocket testing in the state of Utah has been a point of 
pride.

Such testing has been a creator of high-paying, high-tech jobs and a hub 
for military research and development. Now, half a century later, we're 
learning these tests have come at a price; the ultimate costs, no one 
quite knows.

...

ABC 4 News decided to run our own tests, on lettuce and milk purchased 
from a variety of Wasatch Front stores.

The good news, all of our lettuce samples were free of perchlorate.

The milk samples however, all tested positive. And though the levels 
were well below the 24 ppb threshold, our findings are now cause for 
concern.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.abc4.com/content/specials/as_seen_on/story.aspx?content_id=d106e67e-0ec9-4833-b5a6-b97740f6c43f

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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