Don Kriens, principal engineer for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the results. Blood samples taken from fish in the Mississippi River near the 3M plant in Cottage Grove showed very high levels of PFOS, a chemical manufactured at the plant until 2002 and used in stain-resistant treatments for carpets, fabrics and paper products.
"The results were startlingly high," Kriens said, with some chemical concentrations 10 times higher than had been reported anywhere for fish or wildlife. "The fish are definitely contaminated with this stuff," he said.
http://www.startribune.com/531/story/269889.html
San Francisco, CA-- A new Environmental Protection Agency rule will turn more Americans into lab rats for industry pesticide tests according to lawsuits filed today by a coalition of health and environmental advocates, farmworkers and doctors. The groups contend that the agency’s human testing rule violates a law passed by Congress in 2005 mandating strict ethical and scientific protections for pesticide testing on humans.
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