EPA Balks at Halting Pesticide-Child Study

[mitchtv]

http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SENATE_EPA_NOMINEE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-04-07-20-00-18

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency won't rush to cancel a study on how pesticides affect children despite threats from Senate Democrats to hold up confirmation of the new EPA administrator until the study is canned
Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Bill Nelson of Florida demanded Wednesday that EPA end the study, saying they will block a Senate vote on the confirmation of Stephen Johnson to be the agency's administrator
But the agency said Thursday it is awaiting a report from a science advisory panel before it decides whether to cancel the planned study. EPA has suspended the study, and the advisory panel's report is not expected until May, said EPA spokesman Rich Hood
EPA had planned to give participating families $970 plus a camcorder and children's clothes, but critics inside and outside the agency said that might encourage low-income families to use pesticides in their homes. The two-year study was to be conducted on the families of 60 children in Duval County, Fla.
On poor families they test?Culture of life doing human testing on infants less than a year old?

[mitchtv]

1. this should be a big story,

spraying pesticides around the homes of poor families to see how the poisons infiltrate. This guy wants to head up the EPA.the study is on infants less than a year. $970. and a camcorder to allow the to test pesticides on your kid? Dr Mengele would be proud.

[thedevilinthedetails]

12. You guys all need to read the EPA website, this study is not what you thin

spraying pesticides around the homes of poor families to see how the poisons infiltrate. This guy wants to head up the EPA.the study is on infants less than a year. $970. and a camcorder to allow the to test pesticides on your kid? Dr Mengele would be proud.

Contrary to what Boxer's letter says, the EPA was not going to pay familes $970 to let them apply poisons and such on little kids.

Granted, considering how much some people hate Buschco etc, the concept of Buschco etc doing just that might not seem that far fetched, but the truth is that the EPA was simply going to monitor households over a 2 year period and see what impact the products the family ALREADY was using has on children. The EPA site said no family would need to start using chemicals if they weren't already.

Boxer has totally mischarachterized what the EPA stated on the website what the study was going to do. She needs to have someone sit down and read the actual study to her, because this is not some evil study, it's simply a way to try to assess the impact that already used toxins have on young kids.

[Vincardog]

14. Right the people just need to be using pesticides or allow pesticides to

be used inside their houses around their infants for a period of two years.

Dream on if you think the aWoL death cult places any value on brown babies.

[babylonsister]

2. I think it's outrageous that the EPA is even allowed

to fund 'experiments' like this on innocent babies. Mengele indeed! And what the hell are the parents thinking? Maybe they need the tanks of gas? Hell in a handbasket...

[katsy]

3. Who knows what they've been told...

or what kind of manipulative spin was put on this atrocity.

Not one word about this on MSM. Why? The rich & famous take a poop and they're all over it... but nazi-inspired experimentation on infants by a government agency and they don't think it worthy of mention! Please explain this to me.

Please e-mail this article to MSM (as I am). Why don't they investigate this culture of death?

:cry:

[katsy]

6. Never mind...

After re-reading my post, the answer to "Why?" is quite evident.

The exploitation of the poverty-stricken is acceptable to the haves and have mores and corporate whoremongers.

MSM won't rock their boat. Who cares about poor rug-rats anyway.

Lower & Middle Class America has always been expendable.

I keep meaning to shed my idealistic character.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[mitchtv]

4. 2 million comes from the American Chemical industry

so you know it will be found safe. They made a point to target low income families in Duval co. FLA. Bernie ward was all over this story last night to listen see : 12 am
http://www.kgoam810.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=263588&PT=Archives

[babylonsister]

9. This was posted yesterday:

Mentioned on www.democracynow.org

Democrats Move to Stall EPA & FDA Nominations
On Capitol Hill, Democratic Senators have temporarily blocked the confirmation of President Bush's nominees to head the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. EPA nominee Stephen Johnson came under intense criticism by Senator Barbara Boxer for his role in a controversial pesticide testing experiment in Florida. Under that program federal researchers offered low-income parents in Duval County nearly $1,000 to allow scientists to measure the effects of pesticides on children under the age of one year. Boxer called the program unethical and immoral. She said "it's environmental injustice where children are the victims." Hearings were also held Wednesday for Lester Crawford who has been nominated to head the Food and Drug Administration. Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton of New York and Patty Murray of Washington vowed to hold up his nomination until the FDA allowed the morning-after-pill be sold. Last year an expert panel of scientists recommended the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B be sold but the FDA has yet to issue a final ruling.

[mitchtv]

5. PLEASE NOMINATE

this deserves as widwe a coverage as possible

[babylonsister]

7. This reminds me of the wide usage of pesticides (DDT?)

in the 50s-60s. I remember trucks spraying the stuff all over the place on Long Island, NY. Long Island is also the place where a huge segment of the population got (breast) cancer. So what will the ramifications of this 'science' be in 10, 20 years?

[shanti]

13. this story was posted on LBN yesterday

it's out there.

[gumby]

8. I thought it was from The Onion

when I first read this story on the Internets, and so did the friend I read the story to.

This is just completely unbelievable.... WAY off the chart.

If the hundred thousand dead in Iraq doesn't prove that BushCo's GOP is a Death Party I wonder if BushCo paying parents to poison your own children... and then videotape it.... will?

Culture of Life INDEED!!!! NOT!!

[babylonsister]

10. Well what do you know-EPA CANCELS STUDY

EPA Cancels Controversial Pesticide Study


WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head.

Stephen Johnson, as EPA's acting administrator, ordered an end to the planned study, a reversal from the agency's position just a day earlier when it said it would await the advice of outside scientific experts.
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Over the study's two years, EPA had planned to give $970 plus a camcorder and children's clothes to each of the families of 60 children in Duval County, Fla., in what critics of the study noted was a low-income minority neighborhood.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., had joined with Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., in demanding the study's cancellation as a condition for confirming Johnson's nomination by President Bush.

"I am very pleased that Mr. Johnson has recognized the gross error in judgment the EPA made when they concocted this immoral program to test pesticides on children," Boxer said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050408/ap...

[mzmolly]

11. Never say the Democrats aren't doing anything.

This is a huge victory.

:hi: