Re: White House Delays Release of Study Showing Toxic Rocket Fuel

In article <120po5aivvbv01f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jo Schaper) wrote:

Alan wrote:

WASHINGTON, March 3 ? Following a published report that the Bush
Administration is holding up a study that shows most Americans carry a
toxic rocket fuel chemical in their bodies at levels close to federal
safety limits, Environmental Working Group (EWG) is calling for the
immediate release of the study so EPA and state agencies can take steps to
protect the public.


Perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in solid rocket fuel, has
contaminated drinking water and soil in at least 35 states, with most of
the known contamination coming from military bases and defense contractors.
Tests by EWG, academic scientists in Texas and Arizona, state officials in
California and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found perchlorate
in milk, produce and many other foods and animal feed crops from coast to
coast. Perchlorate is a thyroid toxin, and animal tests show that even
small amounts can disrupt normal growth and development in fetuses, infants
and children.

Um, a form of perchlorate is also used as dry cleaning fluid, and was
the solvent in the form of typewriter White-out called Sno-Pake, (which
I used 5 days a week from 1978 to 1986). Much of the groundwater
contamination has nothing to do with the military.

Is that the same stuff that certain people used to get high on at the
laundromat, by sticking their heads inside the dry cleaning machine? I
remember that they consequently changed the stuff they used, cos they didn't
want gangs of youths hanging round their laundromats sticking their heads inside
dry-cleaning machines. I also know that the original stuff they used was
carbon-tetra-chloride, but that is now tightly controlled by legislation.

Alan

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