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Web site's agenda can be veiled by name
Pollution: An industry sponsor might be behind that reassuring message
Published December 25, 2004
When the news broke recently about federal researchers discovering a rocket fuel chemical in milk sold in Maryland and elsewhere, readers searching the Web sites of The Sun and other newspapers for information about perchlorate were directed to another site, called the "Truth About Perchlorate."
This Web site, with its prominently placed link paid for by a group called the Council on Water Quality, reassured readers that the low levels of the pollutant found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "have no measurable effect on the body."
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