There is a reason why regulatory agencies may not want industry studies underlying risky product authorisations to be made public. That reason is identified by former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffer Evaggelos Vallianatos in his recent book, Poison Spring (Bloomsbury, 2014). Vallianatos quotes the EPA scientist Adrian Gross as saying that his colleagues long ago gave up actively reviewing industry studies in a way that would allow them to identify problems with the data or interpretation. Instead, Gross said, the EPA toxicologists go straight to the companys summary and lift it word for word and give it as their own evaluation of those studies. The baffling question arises of why the regulators who, knowing of the damaging effects of Roundup on mammals, seem to think they are immune? Are they not human?
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:41:57 +0000
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