No, from what I can see, Volz has his instructions, and a grant that he probably justified in advance.
"One substance we'll be looking for is pthalates, which are found in soaps, paints and glues used in the construction industry," he said.
One substance, otherwise known as the principal plasticizer in PVC, a substance the left has been trying to ban since the days of DOP, despite the fact that it is safe enough to be qualified for use in surgical tubing.
"They're like estrogen in their effect on living systems. An excess amount is like taking birth control pills, and could potentially cause an increase in breast cancer.
Better update that pitch! As if the environmentalist left ever cared about fertility, while breast cancer has been virtually cured. Further, all the pthalate he'll ever find has already been released and has virtually nothing to do with current manufacturing technologies. Thus, essentially NOTHING can be done about it unless somebody breeds some bacterium that only eats phthalate (so why bother unless he's looking to pump up bogus lawsuits against chemical companies that will (if they pull that strategy) go bankrupt and dump the liability onto the taxpayer).
Look, I've got my environmental complaints about the use of vinyl (particularly disposal, whether combustion or landfilling), but feeding lawyers and propping up the use of newly patented elastomeric polyalkanes this way isn't going to cut it.
I agree but I still think its important to know what other harmful compounds those fish are storing (besides the PCBs and mercury). Most FCAs ignore the heavy metals and hormone mimics. While the lawyer feeding freenzy is certainly a risk, i still think its important that the public is aware of the comtamination.