And so another round begins of pollution discovery and predictable spin control by our public health protectors and a corporation probably responsible for the pollution.
Here are just two of the predictable "reassurances."
1) The only proof of harm is in animals, at much higher doses in laboratory tests.
Answer: Yes, but were those animals also exposed to the scores of other industrial chemicals and conventional pollutants, and at the levels each of us faces, on a daily basis?
2) Still, Sarrack says he's confident Oakdale's water is safe -- and he even drank a glass of tap water from a sink in the council chambers to prove his point.
Answer: What does that prove? Drinking one glass of water with low levels of a chemical used to make Teflon in it is not going to harm anyone. Lifetime exposure -- taking into account all of the routes of exposure to the same chemical and others as well -- is the issue.
The most important question is not being asked: What is the corporation responsible for this going to do to get the chemical trespass on Oakdale's drinking water supply fixed?
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/25_bensonl_oakdale/
Posted by Dave at January 25, 2005 09:19 AM