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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Volkman, Jennifer (MPCA)
[mailto:Jennifer.Volkman@state.mn.us] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 07, 2010 11:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pharmaceutical Waste List Serve<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: NYT Editorial on cancer causing chemicals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>FYI, hopefully this will be
widely read!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>New York
Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>May 6,
2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>Op-Ed
Columnist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:black'>New
Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/nicholasdkristof/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank" title="More Articles by Nicholas D. Kristof">NICHOLAS D.
KRISTOF</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>The
President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it
is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food
movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>The <a href="http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/pcp.htm" target="_blank">cancer
panel</a> is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that our
lackadaisical approach to regulation may have far-reaching consequences for our
health. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>I’ve read
an advance copy of the report, and it’s an extraordinary document. It calls on
America to rethink the way we confront cancer, including much more rigorous
regulation of chemicals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>Traditionally,
we reduce cancer risks through regular doctor visits, self-examinations and
screenings such as mammograms. The President’s Cancer Panel suggests other
eye-opening steps as well, such as giving preference to organic food, checking
radon levels in the home and microwaving food in glass containers rather than
plastic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>In
particular, the report warns about exposures to chemicals during pregnancy,
when risk of damage seems to be greatest. Noting that 300 contaminants have
been detected in umbilical cord blood of newborn babies, the study warns that:
“to a disturbing extent, babies are born ‘pre-polluted.’ ”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>It’s
striking that this report emerges not from the fringe but from the mission
control of mainstream scientific and medical thinking, the President’s Cancer Panel.
Established in 1971, this is a group of three distinguished experts who review
America’s cancer program and report directly to the president. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>One of
the seats is now vacant, but the panel members who joined in this report are
Dr. LaSalle Leffall Jr., an oncologist and professor of surgery at Howard
University, and Dr. Margaret Kripke, an immunologist at the M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston. Both were originally appointed to the panel by former
President George W. Bush.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>“We
wanted to let people know that we’re concerned, and that they should be
concerned,” Professor Leffall told me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>The
report blames weak laws, lax enforcement and fragmented authority, as well as
the existing regulatory presumption that chemicals are safe unless strong evidence
emerges to the contrary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>“Only a
few hundred of the more than 80,000 chemicals in use in the United States have
been tested for safety,” the report says. It adds: “Many known or suspected
carcinogens are completely unregulated.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>Industry
may howl. The food industry has already been fighting <a href="http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=01832cd5-5056-8059-76db-c984d14b7fce&Region_id=&Issue_id=551e9cd8-7e9c-9af9-771b-7176768bc4b6" target="_blank">legislation in the Senate backed by Dianne Feinstein of
California</a> that would ban bisphenol-A, commonly found in plastics and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08kristof.html?_r=1" target="_blank">better known as BPA</a>, from food and beverage containers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>Studies
of BPA have raised alarm bells for decades, and the evidence is still complex
and open to debate. That’s life: In the real world, regulatory decisions
usually must be made with ambiguous and conflicting data. The panel’s point is
that we should be prudent in such situations, rather than recklessly approving
chemicals of uncertain effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>The
President’s Cancer Panel report will give a boost to Senator Feinstein’s
efforts. It may also help the prospects of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/04/15/15greenwire-sen-lautenberg-introduces-chemicals-reform-bil-25266.html" target="_blank">the Safe Chemicals Act</a>, backed by Senator Frank Lautenberg
and several colleagues, to improve the safety of chemicals on the market.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>Some 41
percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their
lives, and they include Democrats and Republicans alike. Protecting ourselves
and our children from toxins should be an effort that both parties can get
behind — if enough members of Congress are willing to put the public interest
ahead of corporate interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>One
reason for concern is that some cancers are becoming more common, particularly
in children. We don’t know why that is, but the proliferation of chemicals in
water, foods, air and household products is widely suspected as a factor. I’m
hoping the President’s Cancer Panel report will shine a stronger spotlight on
environmental causes of health problems — not only cancer, but perhaps also
diabetes, obesity and autism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>This is
not to say that chemicals are evil, and in many cases the evidence against a
particular substance is balanced by other studies that are exonerating. To help
people manage the uncertainty prudently, the report has a section of recommendations
for individuals:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>¶Particularly
when pregnant and when children are small, choose foods, toys and garden
products with fewer endocrine disruptors or other toxins. (Information about
products is at <a href="http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com" target="_blank">www.cosmeticsdatabase.com</a>
or <a href="http://www.healthystuff.org" target="_blank">www.healthystuff.org</a>.)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>¶For
those whose jobs may expose them to chemicals, remove shoes when entering the
house and wash work clothes separately from the rest of the laundry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>¶Filter
drinking water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>¶Store
water in glass or stainless steel containers, or in plastics that don’t contain
BPA or <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16kristof.html" target="_blank">phthalates</a> (chemicals used to soften plastics). Microwave
food in ceramic or glass containers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>¶Give
preference to food grown without pesticides, chemical fertilizers and growth
hormones. Avoid meats that are cooked well-done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>¶Check
radon levels in your home. Radon is a natural source of radiation linked to
cancer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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