E.P.A. to Bar Data From Pesticide Studies Involving Children and Pregnant

[ozymandius]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - Researchers will no longer be allowed to include children and pregnant women in studies examining the effects of pesticides to help set federal standards, according to the first regulations for human testing of pesticides that the Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose.

The regulations, to be proposed on Wednesday, would also establish an independent oversight panel to ensure that all studies submitted to the agency were conducted ethically and followed internationally accepted protocols for human testing.

Agency officials discussed the new regulations with reporters on Tuesday. They declined to make copies of the proposal available, leading at least one major critic of the agency, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, to suggest that a close examination of the regulations might reveal weaknesses identified in an earlier version. Agency officials said those weaknesses were removed from a draft sent to the Office of Management and Budget last month.

In a statement, Senator Boxer said of the proposal: "One thing is clear. It must be changed dramatically from the version E.P.A. forwarded to O.M.B. just a few weeks ago. If not, it will be a direct attack on our most vulnerable citizens."

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[bemildred]

1. Hey! Let's forbid use of pesticides in pesticide studies too.

Then we should get really good results.

[gratuitous]

2. So, that idea of testing pesticides on poor people didn't go through

And EPA is trying to find an alternative to informed consent that will allow them to poison people without their knowledge. No copies of the new regulations furnished to anyone, and another instance of the corrupt Bush admininistration disposing of inconvenient oversight with their mantra of "trust us."

As Al used to say to Tim on Tool Time: Based on what?!

[pop goes the weasel]

3. there should be no more Total Pesticide studies

on people. If there just have to be, those studies should be undertaken using the chemical companies' CEOs and their families.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. How could anybody...

...other than the pesticide reapers support this? Pesti-poisons kill without regard to party affiliation. Do Christo-republifascists think they're immune?

[Shipwack]

5. No, but...

they know they know that neither they nor their children will ever have to kneel down and work vegetable farms all day. Breathing in the toxic dust, absorbing it through the skin...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

7. True, but those...

...poisons will end up on their food table, just like yours and mine.

[Gloria]

6. CULTURE OF LIFE!!!! FETUS FOREVER!!! RIGHT????

What is this CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing like mutating future generations...

[noonwitch]

8. I don't use pesticides because I don't want my dog exposed to them

nonetheless actual people.

When I was in college, we had cockroaches in one of the apartments I lived in. I never had them in my cupboard, because I always had a blossom of garlic in there. I'm not into gardening, but I've wondered if garlic is a good alternative to insecticides. Maybe that would be worth studying?