America has also LONG allowed all sorts of toxic materials and chemicals, and, through incompetence, exposed its living beings (humans included) to such. In pa

America has also LONG allowed all sorts of toxic materials and chemicals, and, through incompetence, exposed its living beings (humans included) to such. In particular, materials which bioaccumulate have a tradition of being just ignored as unimportant until a couple decades ago (ddts, lead, asbestos, silicates in general, phthalates, etc).