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study
A
US EPA "Children's Environmental Exposure Research
Study" (CHEERS) was approved to assess children's exposure
to pesticides in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida.
The
two-year study will monitor developmental changes in babies,
from birth to age 3, who are exposed to pesticides in their
homes. Included in the pesticides and chemicals to be monitored
are:
Fluorinated
pesticides:
Bifenthrin, Fipronil, Lambda-cyhalothrin, and Cyfluthrin
I, II, III, IV, total;
Fluorinated chemicals:
4-fluoro-3-phenoxybenzoic acid and the perfluorinated PFOS
and PFOA.
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October 29,
2004
Orlando Sentinel
(Florida)
A conflict
of interest
Our position: The EPA has no business allowing the chemical industry
to pay for a study.
By: Editorial
staff
Most people would look askance at a government study on gun safety
that was bankrolled by the gun industry.
Yet the Environmental
Protection Agency has agreed to take $2 million from the American
Chemistry Council, a chemical manufacturers group, to pay for
a study on the effect of household chemicals and pesticides on
young children.
While the
EPA insists the agency, not the industry, will control the study,
its funding will inevitably raise doubts about its findings.
The EPA also accepted chemical-industry cash for studies during
the Clinton administration. But even if it's business as usual
for the agency, it's still wrong.
The EPA has
a $572 million research budget. It doesn't need to go begging
for money from industries it regulates.
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