Thursday, January 13, 2005
It's not rocket science....
Rembember when the Ephedra was banned because of health concerns? Then what is the following all about? Excuse me, but I believe Rocket Fuel is dangerous by the fact of what it is.
Dangers of Rocket Fuel Chemical Downplayed
Dangers of Rocket Fuel Chemical Downplayed
- ...The health concerns prompted the EPA to begin drafting the first national standard for safe levels, and in 2002 the agency concluded in a draft assessment that perchlorate levels in drinking water should be no higher than 1 part per billion. That prompted protests from the Defense Department and defense contractors, which face potentially billions of dollars in cleanup costs.
They maintained that the substance posed no danger even at levels several hundred times as high.
...The committee said it concluded that perchlorate was much less likely to cause thyroid tumors in humans than the EPA had determined because humans are much less susceptible to disruption of thyroid functions and formation of thyroid tumors than are rats, the subjects of earlier studies. ...
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I don't trust anything that comes out about medicine anymore. First they approve it then they dis-approve it. Who the heck knows whats safe and what's not?
I couldn't read the article because I'm not registered with the Washington Post. So I'm left wondering how the devil do you downplay the dangers of rocket fuel chemicals?
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I couldn't read the article because I'm not registered with the Washington Post. So I'm left wondering how the devil do you downplay the dangers of rocket fuel chemicals?
Wanda @ Words on A Page
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