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This is excellent news, but it is still too little. Plenty of other chemicals and ingredients in our lives have nasty health consequences. Phthalates are in ev
by Dig1t 3y ago
This is excellent news, but it is still too little. Plenty of other chemicals and ingredients in our lives have nasty health consequences.
Phthalates are in everything, including most food/beverage packaging, and have a mountain of evidence going back 10+ years showing that they cause reproductive harm. The FDA has all the evidence it needs to regulate them but it’s doing nothing. PFAS had to do a lot of damage before it got to this point, it’s a bit disheartening.
- fnordian_slip 3y agoAs an outsider I can't say if this is the truth, but I've heard that calls from the FDA for more funding and power are being purposefully ignored by the kind of people who would rather not have oversight over corporations. Since if it doesn't get adequate funding and powers, it can't do its job, and then you can argue that it's useless and have a reason to weaken it even further, until you can eventually abolish it, which of course was the goal all along.