Comments on: Raising the bar for chemical safety will spur, not stifle, innovation http://www.favstocks.com/raising-the-bar-for-chemical-safety-will-spur-not-stifle-innovation/0912425/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raising-the-bar-for-chemical-safety-will-spur-not-stifle-innovation Stock Market News, Opinion, and More! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Rihana http://www.favstocks.com/raising-the-bar-for-chemical-safety-will-spur-not-stifle-innovation/0912425/#comment-1197 Rihana Mon, 10 May 2010 22:52:33 +0000 http://www.favstocks.com/raising-the-bar-for-chemical-safety-will-spur-not-stifle-innovation/0912425/#comment-1197 The potential for TSCA reform is quite exciting, but it should be done in a way that doesn’t sacrifice millions of animals (for toxicity testing) in the name of better protection for human health and the environment. The revised bill needs to mandate and create market incentives to use nonanimal methods and tests. I agree that we should use the latest science to assess chemicals. Instead of poisoning animals and attempting to apply that data to humans — which hasn’t worked out so far — we need to make sure a reformed TSCA relies on modern human cell and computer-based methods that provide more accurate data on how a chemical acts on cells and what the impact on human health may be. The potential for TSCA reform is quite exciting, but it should be done in a way that doesn’t sacrifice millions of animals (for toxicity testing) in the name of better protection for human health and the environment. The revised bill needs to mandate and create market incentives to use nonanimal methods and tests.

I agree that we should use the latest science to assess chemicals. Instead of poisoning animals and attempting to apply that data to humans — which hasn’t worked out so far — we need to make sure a reformed TSCA relies on modern human cell and computer-based methods that provide more accurate data on how a chemical acts on cells and what the impact on human health may be.

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