Re: National Toxicology Program vote on dioxin

["Michael Eckstein" <Me1065@worldnet.att.net>]

To: Multiple Recipients of list DIOXIN-L

Why should the industry hacks be allowed to get a previous vote be
overturned?  It seems like garbage that previous "meeting procedures" were
not followed.
The Board of Scientific Counselors of NIEHS has finally given in to
industry pressure?  Where is their backbone?
Am I understanding this correctly that Dioxin now is considered NOT a
"known human carcinogen" by NIEHS?  If so, what rubbish!!
We must insist that the background of each Counselor did or does not have
any ties to the industry or their hacks.
Dioxin has caused so much suffering, not only in Vietnam Veterans and our
children (Agent Orange) , but also in our everyday lives.  For us to take
this decision and just let it be would be criminal.  
We must unite as one, whether we agree politically or not on other
subjects, to this travesty against the truth about Dioxin..

Mike Eckstein, Member - New Jersey Agent Orange Commission
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> From: Center for Health, Environment and Justice <cchw@essential.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
> Subject: National Toxicology Program vote on dioxin
> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 8:17 AM
> 
> On December 3, 1998 the National Toxicology Program's Board of
> Scientific Counselors, part of the National Institute of Environmental
> Health Sciences, held a re-vote to list 2,3,7,8-
> tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as a "known human carcinogen," the strongest
> ranking of certainty given to cancer causing chemicals.  The measure
> failed by a vote of seven to five.  This action overturns a previous
> vote taken in October 1997, when NTP voted to list dioxin as a known
> human carcinogen. That ruling was not considered final due to complaints
> from industry lawyers that meeting procedures were not followed
> correctly. 
> 
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