Paul Cherubini wrote:
> According to the EPA
> http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/op/coumaphos/summary.htm
>
> "Dietary Risks are low: Acute and chronic risks from food
> treated with coumaphos do not exceed the Agency¼s level of
> concern."
I vividly recall visiting EPA HQ in the Nixon period and being told
calmly by a senior staffer "you can set your level of concern high enough
so it doesn't impact on current practice". I was startled at the candour
(or as he would probably have put it, candor) of this man in disclosing to
me a regulatory charade.
The actual pollutants I was there to discuss with him were nothing
like coumaphos (but nuclear industry byproducts); however, the principle -
if that's the right word - is the same.
R