the 4700 compounds is theoretical even on OSHAs part. As they have never identified and trapped more than about 800 actual chemicals and they cant even trap those everytime as they are so small they can barely be measured.
The rise of a pseudo-scientific links lobby
Every day there seems to be a new study making a link between food, chemicals or lifestyle and ill-health. None of them has any link with reality.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13287#.U6ibAzYo59A
Manufacturing the science to meet the agenda, in black on white. Does anyone still have doubts?
‘’Bal laughs when asked about the role of scientific evidence in guiding policy decisions. “There was no science on how to do a community intervention on something of this global dimension,” he says. “Where there is no science, you have to go and be venturesome—you can’t use the paucity of science as an excuse to do nothing. We created the science, we did the interventions and then all the scientists came in behind us and analyzed what we did.”
Read under the title :
Tobacco Control: The Long War—When the Evidence Has to Be Created
http://www.milbank.org/uploads/documents/0712populationhealth/0712populationhealth.html