Posted on 06/27/2005 6:55:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO - California has been offered $1.7 million in training, laboratory tests and technical support from the federal government to help measure levels of toxic chemicals in state residents.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's offer came in response to a request by U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, for a federal commitment to biomonitoring in California, the Breast Cancer Fund said Monday.
The Oakland Tribune published a series of stories in March on the increasing amounts of manmade chemicals and environmental toxins showing up in humans.
The paper spent $17,000 to test a Berkeley family and found that all four members - even the baby - were carrying chemicals such as PCBs, mercury, lead, cadmium and even fire retardants used in plastic appliances, foam cushions and carpet backing.
A link between such a "body burden" and negative health effects has not yet been scientifically proven. But many researchers suspect that pollutants in the blood cause long-term damage, perhaps contributing to a decline in fertility, or quietly lowering the IQs of children, the Tribune reported.
On Tuesday, the California Assembly's health committee will consider a bill to create a voluntary "biomonitoring" program to measure chemical contaminants in Californians. Backers say the program would help to track trends in chemical exposure, to identify vulnerable communities and to assess current regulations.
Is this going to be run like The History Factory? Or, that organization Oprah went to have her DNA studied, revealing her to be ancestralled of Zulu tribe?
A link between such a "body burden" and negative health effects has not yet been scientifically proven. But many researchers suspect that pollutants in the blood cause long-term damage, perhaps contributing to a decline in fertility, or quietly lowering the IQs of children.... and many voters, it would appear as well.
I guess the aliens don't want to share the results of their blood survey,, so .. the feds have to find some way to draw lots of blood, all for the children of course. ~<|;-)
You just know where all this is going to lead, fatalistic doom and gloom claims by the "scientific community" about how we have to go back to living in caves least we all die.
While I agree that they must be injesting something that makes them all looney on the left coast, it's self inflicted.
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