Huff Post: Kid-Safe Chemicals Act

The Chemical Industry Takes on the Mommy Lobby

, Robyn O'Brien
Published June 28, 2009

As headlines swirl, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the nation's food safety laws have an eerie similarity to the federal approach to safeguarding our citizens from exposure to toxic chemicals and toxic financial assets. If our federal aviation system were to adhere to the same loose, deregulated standards that we are now seeing in the chemical industry, the financial industry and the food industry, we'd be allowed to board airliners without first being checked for bombs, guns, knives, or any other objects designed to harm passengers and the crew. That said, legislation will soon be introduced in the House and Senate that would protect every single American, including babies not yet born, from a life of daily contamination and a host of toxic chemicals, some of which are extremely potent at even low doses. New Jersey's senior Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D), a kindhearted Senator with ten grandchildren and who I had the honor of meeting last month in Washington, DC, and Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush (D) are poised to offer a landmark reform plan -- The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act -- to fix the failed federal toxics law that instead of protecting humans and the environment from the dangers of chemical exposures, has in fact allowed an entire population of people to become polluted, beginning in the womb. Click here to read this post.