ORGANIC BYTES #69
Health, Environment and Consumer News Tidbits with and Edge!
11/16/2005
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ALERT: EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS & MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. Earlier this year, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children, but the EPA's newly proposed rule puts industry profits ahead of children's welfare. The rule allows for government and industry scientists to treat children as human guinea pigs in chemical experiments in the following situations:
- Children who "cannot be reasonably consulted," such as those that are mentally handicapped or orphaned newborns may be tested on. With permission from the institution or guardian in charge of the individual, the child may be exposed to chemicals for the sake of research.
- Parental consent forms are not necessary for testing on children who have been neglected or abused.
- Chemical studies on any children outside of the U.S. are acceptable.
Learn more and take action now: http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa6.cfm
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Organic Consumers Association: http://www.organicconsumers.org/
Thanks to Valerie Eagle Heart for this submission!
Related Blogs:
Toxins in Newborns: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=98
Study finds newborns' blood contains a total of 287 toxic chemicals. Congressmen introduce legislation that would require that all chemicals be proven safe before use.
Pesticides: Body Burden: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=61
The CDC found that more than 90% of U.S. residents carry pesticides in their bodies, many linked to health effects. One recommendation for consumers is to eat organic food and maintain pesticide-free homes.
Gasp of Horror--Human Subjects for Pesticide Testing: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=125
When I first read this, my eyes widened, my mouth fell open and a gasp of horror escaped my lips: young adults, in a closed room, subjected to breathing in poison. Poison shot up their noses and into their eyes. Poison, known to cause nervous system damage, swallowed. NO, this is not some scene out of Dante's Inferno or the death camps of the Nazi Third Reich. These are experiments approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test pesticides on human subjects.
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