Government consultant gets the pink slip

Last Friday, in response to an Environmental Working Group investigation, the government
fired a conflict-ridden industry consulting firm, Sciences International (SI). SI is
no ordinaryscience-for-hire company. For the past eight years, SI was actually
running thefederal center that decides whether or not chemicals pose
reproductive risks to people. At the same time, SI boasted of more than 50 chemical
company clients, many of whom made the chemicals under scrutiny by the SI-controlled
federal center.  But sending SI home is only the first step toward safer chemical
reviews. What's to keep the National Toxicology Program (NTP) from replacing one
conflicted contractor with another? Certainly not a conflict of interest policy--because
they don't have one.
Read more at:
LINK: http://ewg.org/issues/bisphenola/20070403/index.php

 

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