Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have Big Effects: Scientific American

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Driscoll

Sydney, Australia

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Interesting article.

While it is encouraging to hear the alarms are being raised, I suspect strongly

governments especially are not as interested in keeping their citizens alive as

they may have previously seemed... that we are of interest to our government

only in our working (tax paying of course) and consuming lifespans, not when we

are more likely to ask something of our government for support or medical care

later in life!

It is now fashionable to get rid of the BPA bottles, and the makers of water and

baby bottles are of course making new bottles and selling them to us - so this

" alarm " was of use to someone... I think, however, they want the corn warning

and other basic food stuff concerns to quietly " go away " as they will not be

" useful " to the corporate masters lol.

I'm not sure the scientists in this case will get too far, considering that

there is an open effort in Congress to dismantle portions of the Clean Water Act

and EPA enforcement recently, it's not just the low exposures to endocrine

altering things that matter, it's the big picture of clean water and air, far

more basic concerns at stake. The likelihood of getting the food supply cleaned

up of e.coli and other dread bugs is also of great concern to most people and

quite important, but one hears of continuing recalls and other hazards from

buying and consuming food. The " pink slime " outrage this past week focused on

fresh meat but carefully skirted the popular and more widespread inclusion of

" mechanically separated meats " in packaged/frozen foods...

It's one thing to get the regulations out there, quite another to enforce them

not only on USA but on other countries (e.g., China) who have widereaching

production and distribution and it appears little concern outside of angering

trade partners with toxic heavy metals from time to time...?

A bit cynical this bright morning,

The Phantom

aka Schaefer, CMT/RMT, competing powerlifter

Denver, Colorado, USA

Low Doses of Hormone-like Chemicals May Have Big

Effects: Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=low-doses-hormone-like-chemical\

s-may-have-big-effects

Driscoll

Sydney, Australia