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David,

Who are you?  What ideas do you represent?  Why are we not communicating?
One minute I think you are indicating to us that dioxin levels are so high
that there is nothing we can do about dioxin to reduce it to acceptable
levels, and that anything we did would therefore just be a waste of money.
When I let you know that I would consider this solution platent disregard
for human health, and that we should stop producing dioxin immediately, you
come back and call my suggestion vile and odious.  Is this a bit of English
comedy or are American and English different languages?  Or what?  I am
totally confused.

Connie

> Dear Connie
>
> I think your suggestion that industry should be able to horse-trade with
> frank toxicity is both vile and odious. I don't see any place for any
horse
> trading with industry in the regulatory process, nor for finding acute
> toxicity to be acceptable; risk assessment should protect human health.
Any
> discussion about acceptable levels starts at a level below toxicity to
> humans.
>
> ><Snip>I cannot comment on the validity of the EPAs numbers but plain >old
> >common sense tells me that here we are not even talking about >erring on
> >the side of risk.  If scientists already think our dioxin >intake is too
> >high, then we are talking about blatent disregard
>
> The EPA's own Science Advisory Board rejected the conclusions of chapter 8
> of the 1994 dioxin assessment, and their sole remit was whether the
chapter
> was scientifically sound (Science Advisory Board. 1995. An SAB Report: A
> Second Look at Dioxin. Review of the Office of Research and Development's
> Reassessment of Dioxin and Dioxin-Like Compounds by the Dioxin
Reassessment
> Review Committee.). The US is unique in having a TDI for dioxin 100 times
> lower than the WHO, or Canada, or the European Union.
>
> cheers
> david
>
>
>
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