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Congress takes aim at chemicals in kids
Nice to see some in Congress are moving forward with efforts to force chemical companies to test for safety before their products wind up in babies. Just a couple of years back EWG tested the umbilical cord blood of ten unborn babies and found an average of 287 industrial chemicals. Why?
Under current law known as the Toxic Substances Control Act, unchanged since 1976, most new chemicals are approved with little or no safety testing, and more than 62,000 existing chemicals have remained on the market for three decades despite evidence that some pose serious health risks. The Kid Safe Chemicals Act introduced yesterday would place the burden of proof on the chemical industry to show that chemicals are safe for children before they are added to consumer products.
Finally! Something needs to be done. Its hard to attempt to keep all these chemicals away from my baby. Especially with all these other relatives around who don't believe me when I talk about chemical dangers.
to place the burden for the safety of chemicals on the chemical companies themseves is morally and ethically wrong
Anon, that's an interesting position to take -- care to explain why?