a couple years ago on FreeSpeech Tv also showed the negative effects on
the local water supplies of poor Latin American populations etc from
deleterious practices of bottling plants run by Coke etal.
Here's another tidbit from my farm group:
Regarding teflon in our drinking water (unfortunately we also get decent
doses of pharmaceuticals drugs, fluoride and a bunch of other bad stuff
is there too)
--- On Sat, 1/17/09, wrote:
Bush Moves to Okay Toxic Teflon Pollution in Tap Water
New EWG tests find the pollutant in Washington DC tap water
Washington, D.C. - January 15, 2009 - In its final days, the Bush
administration appears poised to issue an emergency health advisory
for tap water polluted with the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA
(perfluorooctanoic acid) effectively allowing a significant level of
pollution and discouraging cleanup of PFOA contamination in tap water
in at least 9 states, according to an analysis by Environmental
Working Group (EWG).
The level of permissible PFOA contamination under the
administration' s guidance would be 10 times higher than that allowed
by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, whose
commissioner, Lisa Jackson has been tapped by incoming President
Obama to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). If the
Bush administration advisory is allowed to stand, it could result in
blood levels of PFOA in people nearly 10 times higher than the
current average amounts.
The millions of Americans who drink PFOA-contaminated water include
residents of Washington, D.C., according to new tests commissioned by
EWG. EWG's tests are the first to find PFOA contamination in the
city's tap water.
An internal EPA document obtained by West Virginia journalist Ken
Ward, Jr. and published yesterday on the Charleston Gazette website
shows that EPA intends to defend its relatively weak Provisional
Health Advisory as sufficient to protect people from harmful short-
term exposures to PFOA. However, people who drink PFOA-contaminated
tap water are exposed to this chemical day after day, year after
year, and studies of communities with contaminated tap water show the
chemical concentrates in human blood to levels 100 times higher than
found in the water they drink. The proposed standard ignores this
fact. The practical effect of this first-ever federal safety level
would be to sanction long-term exposures at unsafe levels under the
guise of a short term advisory.
EWG's review of water pollution studies from available scientific
literature and government dockets finds that PFOA pollutes tap water
supplies in at least 9 states and the District of Columbia, including
tap water consumed by Chicago residents and people served by 78
percent of water utilities tested by New Jersey authorities.
The full extent of PFOA contamination in water supplies nationally is
not known. EPA does not require water utilities to test for PFOA. A
lax Provisional Health Advisory, such as is now contemplated by EPA,
would discourage the agency from setting a binding drinking water
standard and requiring long-term national water testing for PFOA.
"Nobody should have to drink cancer-causing Teflon chemicals in their
tap water," said EWG Executive Director Richard Wiles. "This is
nothing more than a last-minute Bush administration bailout for PFOA
polluters, okaying dangerous levels of this Teflon chemical."
"With nearly the entire U.S. population, including young children,
exposed to this chemical, it's critical that EPA set standards to
protect health," added Wiles. "The practical effect of this guidance
will be that millions of people are exposed to unsafe levels of a
dangerous chemical in their tap water."
A study of West Virginia communities surrounding DuPont's Parkersburg
facility, conducted by a team of independent scientists as a result
of a class action settlement, shows that PFOA concentrates in human
blood, building up to approximately 100 times the levels in tap
water. EPA appears to have ignored the cumulative danger from PFOA --
a critical factor in chronic human health risks from long-term
exposures to this chemical.
EWG is a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC that
uses the power of information to protect human health and the
environment.
gerip
urdafamily@aol.com wrote:
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> (India is not the only country where bottling plants are destroying the
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