The Precautionary Principle Turns Environmental Risk
Assessment on its Head
By Linda Smith
Every day we use “new and
improved” products brought to us by the miracles of the
chemical industry – an industry that has introduced more
than 70,000 chemicals into our world since the 1950’s.
You’d think that before new chemicals are marketed,
manufacturers would have to perform rigorous tests on
them, submit them to the EPA for extensive retesting,
and then gain official approval as being unequivocally
safe for humans and the environment. If you thought our
nation’s chemical product policy was designed to protect
you in this way, you’d be wrong.
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