Chemical industry never researched multiple chemical exposure health risks

(NaturalNews) According to the latest available statistics, there are more than 80,000 approved chemicals currently in commercial use. But believe it or not, only a few hundred of these chemicals have ever gone through proper safety testing by their manufacturers or by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prior to hitting the market. And fewer still have been tested in variable combinations with other chemicals, even though this is how most people are exposed to them on a daily basis.

This major public health scandal made a cover story recently published in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal Chemical & Engineering News (CEN), which discusses some of the strategies the EPA is employing to catch up with better regulating this runaway chemical insurgence. But missing from this important dialogue is any talk about how the EPA plans to test chemicals as they occur in real life -- in combination with other chemicals.

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