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ACS has a position statement on endocrine disruptors:
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=2226&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=4d680e34-14f1-4a22-83cb-64f7716d6e26
I very much doubt ACS would go further than this or would be ready to
support such a bill, other than to support further research into a still
controversial area. Ray Garant, Assistant Director of Public Policy and CEI
Staff Liaison, may also want to comment.
Further, my bias is strongly toward the public notice and comment rulemaking
process and I would lobby against any kind of automatic ban authority being
delegated to a small group of government employees. Bans (and even
black-listing) entail major costs and benefits considerations that require
input from all affected stakeholders.
Disclosures: I'm on the ACS Committee for Environmental Improvement, teach a
course on environmental regulations at the Univ of Minnesota and am a
business consultant, specializing in TSCA and product stewardship.
Georjean Adams
EHS Strategies, Inc.
651-204-3371
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:59 PM, ILPI wrote:
> This is a fascinating paradigm shift, although I would be genuinely
> surprised if such legislation could make it out of committee, let alone
> through the House. Does the ACS have a position on this or is it too hot
> an issue for them to touch given the ACC's strong opposition?
>
> Rob Toreki
>
> See
> http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/08/chemical.bans/index.html?hpt=hp_t2and the current version of the as-yet-unsubmitted bill at
> http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/07/08/endocrine.disrupting.chemicals.exposure.elimination.act.of.2011-jun.24.pdf
>
> *Bill would let federal health researchers ban certain chemicals*
>
> (CNN) -- A new bill could alter the landscape of chemical regulation in the
> United States by empowering researchers to take swift action against the
> most potentially harmful chemicals in use today.
>
> The bill, to be introduced later this month, would give the director of the
> National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and a panel of experts
> selected by the director, the power to ban up to 10 chemicals from commerce
> each year by categorizing them as being of high concern.
>
> Those chemicals would become unlawful to use 24 months after receiving that
> designation.
>
> Among the chemicals that could be subject to a ban is bisphenol A, or BPA,
> a hormone-disrupting substance widely used in plastics that has been the
> target of controversy in recent months.
>
> The bill is to be introduced by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Virginia, and Sen. John
> Kerry, D-Massachusetts, later this month.
>
> The fate of the legislation, though, is far from certain. It will have to
> make its way through committee in both the Republican-controlled House and
> the Senate, where Democrats have a small majority.
>
> CNN received an advance copy of the bill*, called the Endocrine-Disrupting
> Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011, which has a self-executing
> statute under which the listing of high concern by the NIEHS automatically
> would outlaw the chemical or class of chemicals, and would require each
> regulatory agency to take action to prohibit the chemical.
>
> *Editor's note: This is an advanced draft of the bill. It could change
> before being introduced.
>
> If the bill were to become law, the NIEHS, a part of the National
> Institutes of Health, could have chemicals outlawed much sooner than
> otherwise possible...
>
> (much more in the rest of the article; see link above).
>
>
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ACS has a position statement on endocrine disruptors: http://portal.acs.org/porta
l/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_i
d=2226&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=4d680e3
4-14f1-4a22-83cb-64f7716d6e26
I very much doubt ACS would go further than this or would be ready to s
upport such a bill, other than to support further research into a still con
troversial area.=A0 Ray Garant, Assistant Director of Public Policy and CEI
Staff Liaison, may also want to comment.
Further, my bias is strongly toward the public notice and comment rulem
aking process and I would lobby against any kind of automatic ban authority
being delegated to a small group of government employees.=A0 Bans (and eve
n black-listing) entail major costs and benefits considerations that requir
e input from all affected stakeholders.
Disclosures: I'm on the ACS Committee for Environmental Improvement
, teach a course on environmental regulations at the Univ of Minnesota and
am a business consultant, specializing in TSCA and product stewardship.
Georjean Adams
EHS Strategi
es, Inc.
651-204-3371
On Fri, Jul
8, 2011 at 9:59 PM, ILPI
<info**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com> wrote:
Th
is is a fascinating paradigm shift, although I would be genuinely surprised
if such legislation could make it =A0out of committee, let alone through t
he House. =A0 Does the ACS have a position on this or is it too hot an issu
e for them to touch given the ACC's strong opposition?
Rob Toreki
See=A0
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/08/chemical.bans/index.html?h
pt=hp_t2 and the current version of the as-yet-unsubmitted bill at=A0
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/07/08/endocrine.disrupting.chemi
cals.exposure.elimination.act.of.2011-jun.24.pdf
Bill would let federal health researchers ban certain che
micals
(CNN) -- A new bill could alter th
e landscape of chemical regulation in the United States by empowering resea
rchers to take swift action against the most potentially harmful chemicals
in use today.
The bill, to be introduced later this month, would give
the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a
nd a panel of experts selected by the director, the power to ban up to 10 c
hemicals from commerce each year by categorizing them as being of high conc
ern.
Those chemicals would become unlawful to use 24 months
after receiving that designation.
Among the chemic
als that could be subject to a ban is bisphenol A, or BPA, a hormone-disrup
ting substance widely used in plastics that has been the target of controve
rsy in recent months.
The bill is to be introduced by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Virgi
nia, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, later this month.
The fate of the legislation, though, is far from certain. It wil
l have to make its way through committee in both the Republican-controlled
House and the Senate, where Democrats have a small majority.
CNN received an advance copy of the bill*, called the E
ndocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011, which has a
self-executing statute under which the listing of high concern by the NIEH
S automatically would outlaw the chemical or class of chemicals, and would
require each regulatory agency to take action to prohibit the chemical.
*Editor's note: This is an advanced draft of the bi
ll. It could change before being introduced.
If th
e bill were to become law, the NIEHS, a part of the National Institutes of
Health, could have chemicals outlawed much sooner than otherwise possible..
.
(much more in the rest of the article; see link a
bove).
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