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Safer States on Sep 11, 2009
The nation's largest association of physicians and medical students has resolved to advocate for improved
chemical policy and environmental health practices in the United States. The American Medical Association (AMA) recommended restructuring of the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA) to help federal and state agencies to efficiently
assess “the human and environmental health hazards of industrial
chemicals and reduce the use of those of greatest concern.”
The AMA is calling on
government to “implement a national modern, comprehensive chemicals
policy that is in line with current scientific knowledge on human and
environmental health, and that requires a full evaluation of the health
impacts of both newly developed and industrial chemicals now in use.”
Read more at www.changecalifornia.org.
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