The Environmental Protection Agency failed to follow its own guidelines and made a basic error in evaluating how a toxic contaminant in rocket fuel harms human health, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general.
The contaminant, perchlorate, has been found in significant levels in drinking water in at least 400 locations; scientific studies indicate that perchlorate blocks the necessary accumulation of iodide in human thyroid glands. Iodide insufficiencies in pregnant women are “associated with permanent mental deficits in the children,” the E.P.A. said.
US Food and Drug Administration's Total Diet Study: dietary intake of perchlorate and iodine.
BOOM goes the water.
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BS! Environmentalists for the most part are left wing whacko's who support free and unfeterred abortion. They also are anti business and probably anti-American.
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