" After years of delay, EPA is aggressively moving forward by ordering the testing of a number of pesticide chemicals for hormone effects," said Steve Owens, assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances. "These new data will be carefully evaluated to help identify potential hormone disruptor chemicals."
Well, better late than never I guess. We've only been dousing our farmland in left over residue from WWII for the last 65 years. Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction.
With literally tens of thousands of new synthetic chemicals released into our environment in the last hundred years, and with that number growing with each year, it will be impossible to test all of them for detrimental health effects. I still have to give the EPA kudos for stepping up. There is no telling what sort of resistance they met from Big Agra Business; lets just hope the millions of dollars that will undoubtedly be thrown at the EPA (by such ethical businesses as DOW and Monsanto. . .) won't sway the advance of good science. . .
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