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So…APVMA and Tasmania’s (and other States) pesticide regulator could do away with research permits and all those other cosy “commercial-in-confidence” schemes that means that those exposed to a certain spray event or pesticide product have no idea (and no way at all of ever finding out) what is actually contained in the spray or product. These chemicals may well be in our food, our air, even our drinking water for all we know. No-one except those exposed to these “it’s a secret” chemicals seems to feel that this situation is wrong; certainly no-one with any position of authority in Government.
….Looks like Obama’s administration is moving to wind back the US industries’ free ride on CIC for chemicals.
“A week after he arrived at the agency in July, Steve Owens, assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, ended confidentiality protection for 530 chemicals.”
From environmentalhealthnews.org
Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law. Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States – from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners – nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the EPA, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision. Washington Post
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010302110.html
Dave Groves: HERE
