EPA to Test Toxic Chemicals on Low Income Kids

[Desertrose]

Just when you think the bastids can't get any lower.....they will use low-income kids ( in other words the ones in their eyes that are dispensable) for a short term test with toxic chemicals that are KNOWN to have long term effects...will pronounce that "See...there are no ill effects here"...get whatever fowl substances they want OK'd or whatever and down the road 10-20 years, will eliminate all those they consider worth *less* than their greedy millionare buds. :grr:



The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)is seeking input on a new proposed
study in which infants in participating low income families will be
monitored for health impacts as they undergo exposure to known toxic
chemicals over the course of two years. For taking part in these studies,
each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed
certificate of appreciation. The study, entitled Children's Environmental
Exposure Research Study (CHEERS), will look at how chemicals are ingested,
inhaled or absorbed by children ranging from babies to 3 years old.

Please take a moment to follow this link and join tens of thousands of
citizens in petitioning the EPA to terminate this study prior to its
proposed launch early this year.

More information, related newspaper headlines and petition here:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm


(Mods- I wasn't sure where this belongs, so move it if you must :) DR)

[ladjf]

1. Better check everybody out. Somethings making Americans

stupid.

[Desertrose]

2. yeah...maybe its all the toxic chemicals

among other things....

[durablend]

4. Chicken or the egg?

Where did it start? The voters or the idiot they voted in?

[WildClarySage]

3. This is a bit misleading.

This study will gather information on the exposure of toxins which are already present in these childrens environs; it is not exposing them to something they are not already exposed to. Also the information being gathered will assist with avoiding exposures and finding ways to treat them in the future.

[NYCGirl]

5. Not exactly true; very misleading. Below is the article from snopes:

Yet again an interesting mix of truth and scare has been loosed upon us all. While the November 2004 e-mail quoted above is relatively factual, its wording leaves those who receive it with an impression far removed from the truth. While the proposed investigation is real, the nature of the test subjects is misunderstood, leading to the wrong conclusion being arrived at by those who hear of it.

Through a research project known as the Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS), the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to gather data about pesticide and household chemical exposure in very young children. The study will begin in the summer of 2005 in Jacksonville, Florida, and will entail monitoring 60 infants (newborn to just shy of 13 months old) for a period of two years.

However, while the e-mail leaves the impression that poverty-stricken families are for the price of a camcorder and $970 heartlessly offering up their tots as lab rats, the little ones to be deliberately sickened by cruel scientists intent upon advancing human knowledge even at the price of 60 babies potentially dealt life-long serious physical ailments by exposure to dreadful chemicals, the truth is quite different. One of the reasons the EPA chose Duval County, Florida, as the site of this research had to do with year-round pesticide use in that area. The children who will be the subjects of the study live there. In other words, if all the clipboard-wielding EPA people stayed home and the project were cancelled before it began, these same children would be exposed to these same pesticides and in the same amounts, due to nothing more sinister than where their parents chose to settle and raise their families.

The EPA will not be administering pesticides to children. Children who are ingesting pesticides thanks to where they live will be studied by the EPA.

More at link:
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/cheers.asp

[Desertrose]

6. thanks...once again I shoulda checked Snopes

I will check it out...

I appreciate finding out the truth of these things....

It was a little hard to believe they could actually do anything like that (although with this admin I can believe they actually would try...sigh..)
:hi: and Thx
DR