I believe it was the great consumer and worker advocate Esther Peterson who said: "Made in USA should be a guarantee, not a warning." She could have been talking
about the chemical industry.
Mike Wright
Michael J. Wright
Director of Health, Safety and Environment
United Steelworkers
412-562-2580 office
412-370-0105 cell
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change
the world."
Jack
Layton
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This country is in such trouble. I wrote a book about essentially the same thing in 2010. The European Union's REACH has been trying to address this issue since
1999, and our government wants to silence an NIH scientist for bringing up the issue in 2017? Oy.
And this is not just a problem with this administration. During the Obama administration, OSHA adopted the GHS (after we had no choice) but did not make mandatory
the SDS requirement to report those toxicology tests that have NOT been done on each chemical. That's the only way workers and consumers will begin to see the magnitude of this problem.
The dirty little secret is most of the chemicals we use have never been studied for any chronic hazards and some of the newer ones don't have acute data either.
And REACH found out that included most of the 30,000 high production volume chemicals as well.
We need to hope REACH will continue on the path it is still taking which is to restrict the use of toxic and untested products sold in the EU. And hope to hell
the loss of business will stimulate industry to test their chemicals. But I predict that as soon as you-know-who is made aware of this issue, he will do exactly what the Obama administration was trying to do through the TTIP treaty, and that is to force the
EU to accept products that meet "our standards" for toxicity which are no standards at all.
Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President: Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
New York, NY 10012 212-777-0062
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