Air Exchange Radio
March Air Exchange on KPFT 90.1 Open Journal
- Andy Igrejas
In this segment of Open Journal's Air Exchange, Matthew Tejada discusses with Andy Igrejas, National Campaign Director of Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, the Safe Chemicals Act, the landmark chemical legislation introduced by Senator Lautenberg and Congressmen Waxman and Rush.
The Safe Chemicals Act would amend the federal Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA). TSCA grandfathered in 62,000 chemicals at the time it passed without requiring any testing or demonstration of safety. Under TSCA, EPA has required testing for only a few hundred of those chemicals, and has only partially restricted five. Meanwhile, a growing body of science has documented widespread human exposures to toxic chemicals in everyday products, and has linked those exposures to the rising incidence of a number of serious chronic diseases and disorders, including reduced fertility, learning disabilities, breast and prostate cancer, and certain childhood cancers.
