Report on chemicals out today

 

Op-Ed Columnist
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer

  

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 5, 2010

The President¹s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical
mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join
ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our
bodies.

The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday,
warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have
far-reaching consequences for our health.

I¹ve read an advance copy of the report, and it¹s an extraordinary
document. It calls on America to rethink the way we confront cancer,
including much more rigorous regulation of chemicals.

Traditionally, we reduce cancer risks through regular doctor visits,
self-examinations and screenings such as mammograms. The President¹s
Cancer Panel suggests other eye-opening steps as well, such as giving
preference to organic food, checking radon levels in the home and
microwaving food in glass containers rather than plastic.

more at

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/opinion/06kristof.html?hp

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Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
 What use one more wake up call?  

 

On 5/6/2010 7:29 AM, Bill who putters wrote:

As a retired chemist, chemo-phobia has always been a sore point with me.
  "President's cancer panel" smells of politics.

There are already several international recognized authorities that are
essentially apolitical.

 



As a still working chemist, you strike me as a nut-case, Frank.

If you were a scientist, you know that you should first show that the
"President¹s Cancer Panel" is engaging in and, disseminating a phobia,
before engaging in "seat of the pants" smell evaluations.


Corporate then? Wouldn't that be ducky, for them, not us.

http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/docs/guidance_document/nutshell_guidance_c
sa_en.pdf
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

 

frankperiodlogullo@comcast.net says...



I used to believe in apolitical until the real world made its presence
known.

There's no such thing as apolitical.

 



 Ignore that man behind the screen.

 I look forward to the report but in my heart I don't need too.  Life as
a web seems to be  obvious and oblivious but the breaking of  if it like
eating a given. Heal the web and we may heal our selves if they exist.  

 Not one not two Japanese high minded philosophy but corrupted too.  See
Zen at war a book.

 Potatoes need checking.

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Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
 What use one more wake up call?