Outspoken Scientist Dismissed From EPA Panel on Chemical Safety

Once again, an expert is dismissed because the facts are not good and would mean that chemical exposure is bad.
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Summary:
“The EPA is in the process of deciding how much daily exposure to deca is safe – a controversial decision, expected next month, that could determine whether it can still be used in consumer products. The role of the expert panel was to review and comment on the scientific evidence.”
Deborah Rice an award-winning former EPA scientist who now works at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, has studied low doses of deca and reported neurological effects in lab animals. Chemical industry lobbyists say Rice’s comments to the Legislature, as well as similar comments to the media, show that she is a biased advocate who has compromised the integrity of the EPA’s review of the flame retardant. Environmentalists accuse the EPA of a “dangerous double standard,” because under the Bush administration, many pro-industry experts have served on the agency’s scientific panels.