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Assessment of the health risks of a food-packaging chemical is riddled with errors, according to reviews by independent scientists.

In today's consensus statement, 38 independent specialists in BPA toxicity from around the world concluded that BPA presents a clear risk to human health.

Critical new studies by scientists at the CDC show that EPA's proposed safe exposure level for rocket fuel is not protective of public health.

The Bush Administration dramatically rolls back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) strongly supports legislation introduced today by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Jim Jeffords (I-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and John Kerry (D-MA) that would overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The legislation, entitled the "Kids-Safe Chemicals Act of 2005," contains much-needed fundamental reforms of TSCA, the nation's notoriously weak chemical safety law. TSCA has not been reformed in nearly 30 years.

In 1998, EWG uncovered the disturbing revival of the discredited--and previously abandoned--pesticide company practice of paying people to eat or drink pesticides, then monitoring for resulting health effects for regulatory advantage. A National Academy