Administration Urged to Complete Dioxin Assessment.(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, February, 2001

A COALITION representing more than 400 activist groups is urging the Bush administration to quickly complete the decade-long reassessment of dioxin's health risk and to protect the public from exposures. In a letter sent to President George W. Bush, the Stop Dioxin Exposure Campaign noted that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is scheduled to issue a final report and cross-media strategy on dioxin in March.

But, EPA's science advisory board recently indicated that it would not complete its review until April. Citing the cancer-causing potential of dioxin, the coalition asked the president for "leadership" in completing the 10-year-old dioxin health risk reassessment. Since this rate of decline is too slow." Coalition coordinator Monica...

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