Exposed: The chemical industry’s fake grass-roots lobbying for fire retardants - LA Times
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Former chemistry industry lobbyist Grant D. Gillham testifies at a hearing last month that he was misled about the safety of the products he was promoting.
New Test Predicts Which Chemicals Could Cause Cancer
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There are some 80,000 chemical compounds on the market worldwide. (...) fewer than two percent of the chemicals in commercial use have been tested for their carcinogenicity (...)
Now, researchers with Boston University in Massachusetts have developed what they hope will become a simple and inexpensive test to determine the cancer-causing potential of tens of thousands of chemicals.