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Re: ATSDR - more than meets the eye
Dick Healy,
Know any thing about this eMail from the Dioxin
List?
I'd be willing to put up a CGI script with a form
letter at http://www.soft-vision.com/ao_vets so
folks can eMail Senators/ATSDR.
A n example of what I mean is up at
http://www.soft-vision.com/josiah/ojc
Joe
Jon Campbell wrote:
> There is more than meets the eye in the ATSDR detoxification of
> dioxin. Make no mistake about it - that is exactly what they are doing, and
> they are doing it quite purposely.
>
> The ATSDR is closely linked to the Centers for Disease Control; both
> agencies are part of Health and Human Services. Previous to 1986 (I believe)
> the CDC had responsibility of correlation of toxic substances and disease.
> Undoubtedly many of the staff positions at the ATSDR used to be in the CDC.
>
> Why is this relevant? The CDC was implicated in previous work to
> "detoxify" dioxin in the cases of Vietnam veterans who had been exposed to
> Agent Orange, canceling its Agent Orange study (1987) and releasing a study
> on the general health of veterans in 1988, which claimed that there was no
> evidence of health problems related to exposure to Agent Orange (see Dying
> >From Dioxin, pg 16).
>
> The EPA's original 1988 Dioxin Assessment specified .006 pg/kg/day
> as the "maximum allowable dose". It appears that, incongruously, ATSDR
> issued its first Tox. Profile for dioxin, at 1 pg/kg/day, at about the same
> time, apparently having relied on the same data that EPA used.
>
> Because the EPA has delayed release of the 1994 Dioxin
> Reassessment, the ATSDR is in a position to set the public standard for
> limits for dioxin intake.
>
> THE SETTING OF THE MDL AT 1 pg/kg/day IS NOTHING LESS THAN SETTING
> THE SOLE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION ON ALLOWABLE DIOXIN INTAKE AT THE
> CURRENT LEVELS, including consumption of highly-contaminated beef, pork, and
> full-fat dairy products. It is an attempt to detoxify the meat and dairy
> industries, the incinerator industry, and the chemical and plastics industry
> by political proclamation.
>
> It is extremely important, in my humble opionion, to not only get
> opposing comments to the ATSDR, but to publicize those comments in the media
> in a way that can be understood by non-technically-trained people.
>
> Dioxin and PCB contamination of the biosphere represents one of the
> worst environmental threats facing us today. The epidemic of cancer and
> other environmental illnesses, as well as species extinction, will escalate
> rapidly unless we act to trap, destroy, and eliminate the sources of these
> powerful endocrine disruptors. (I know I'm preaching to the choir here. My
> point is that now is the time when we put our scientific knowledge to work
> to change the political climate, which, ostrich-like, seeks to hide from the
> menace by keeping it a secret.).
>
> I have no idea whether we can change the thinking in ATSDR. I know we
> must enlighten the U.S. (and the world's) citizens. Whether or not the ATSDR
> publishes this standard as is will not ultimately change the truth about
> dioxin toxicity. It would just be nice if we did not have the ATSDR as an
> adversary.
>
> Thanks for your time
> Jon Campbell
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