EPA TOXIC CHEMICAL STUDY ON LOW INCOME CHILDREN

Two weeks ago the very nice American consumer campaigns site ‘Organic Bytes’ blew the whistle on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a proposed toxic chemical "monitoring study" on low-income children.

The extreme toxicity of these chemicals is already known and many of them are already banned in Europe. Such a large number of people signed the OCA petition (50,000+) and forwarded it to their friends in the first 48 hours, that our website server temporarily crashed and the EPA asked the Organic Consumers Association to stop the petition. We will not stop until the chemical corporations are disinvited in having a hand in this biased study, low income families are no longer targeted, and consumers learn the truth about these dangerous chemicals.

For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation.

In October, the EPA received $2.1 million to do the study from the American Chemistry Council, a chemical industry front group that includes members such as Dow, Exxon, and Monsanto (see full list of members on sidebar of this page). Critics of the research, including some EPA scientists, claim the study's funders guarantee the results will be biased in favor of the chemical industry, at the expense of the health of the impoverished children serving as test subjects.


If you haven't already done so, please sign the petition here...