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Oh, the Humanity
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04 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh, the Humanity Before they can be put on the market, pesticides are usually tested for safety on animals. Government regulators then establish an exposure level for humans that is 10 times more conservative than the safety level for animals. In an effort to abolish the tenfold safety net, pesticide companies frequently sponsor clinical tests on volunteers to try to prove that their products are as ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Stranger in a Familiar Land
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23 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Stranger in a Familiar Land If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from environmentalists, who were concerned ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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