State may launch biomonitoring By Harrison Sheppard, Sacramento Bureau LA Daily News T.R:> Denotes editing by the Toxic Reverend SACRAMENTO - Alarmed at growing evidence linking chemical toxins to health problems, legislators have proposed a statewide study of the chemicals in Californians' bodies caused by environmental pollution and household products. The "biomonitoring" bill passed its first key committee vote Wednesday, but still faces significant corporate and political opposition. t would create a program to measure the amount and type of chemicals in the bodies of study volunteers through tests of blood, urine and breast milk. It could also attempt to correlate those levels with various causes, such as household chemicals, or even potentially hazardous sites such as the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Hills, where a recent study found a slightly higher cancer rate among residents of surrounding communities. "It's time to try to get good science on the environmental causes of cancer," said Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, who authored the bill with Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento. SB 1379 is Ortiz's fourth attempt to pass such a bill amid heavy opposition from manufacturers, chemical companies and other business interests. After rejecting it the two prior years, the Legislature passed a biomonitoring measure in 2005, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it, saying the proposed study was flawed. He directed administration officials to begin looking at creating their own biomonitoring program. Since then, the state Health and Human Services Department and the California Environmental Protection Agency have been meeting to create a framework for such a program but have not yet developed cost estimates or projected timelines for their effort. Most opponents have said publicly they don't oppose the concept of biomonitoring but have problems with the bill's structure. Tim Shestek, a spokesman for the American Chemistry Council   , Tim Shestek, a spokesman for the American Chemistry Council   , said the group's main concern is that the data would be provided with no context. For example, a study volunteer would be told he has a certain chemical in his body, but not whether the level is harmful. ____________________________________________________________ T.R:> Let simplify this by showing the complexity of it. 26   Trade Secrets, web page from Bill Moyers Public Broadcasting show, national television. Documentation of 50 years of corporate cover up. Bull Moyers was tested for over 800 chemicals. They found over 80. That creates more viable chemical reactions in one patient than the California pick six lotto. In many instances, chemicals multiply in toxicity, rather than add, when mixed (16   , 17   ). The correct tests must be used (12A   ). http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/index.html   12A   : The Use of Biochemical and Molecular Parameters to Estimate Dose-Response Relationships at Low Levels of Exposure, exposure http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/1998/Suppl-1/349-355andersen/ full.html   16   : Considering Cumulative Effects Under the National Environmental Policy Act http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/ccenepa/ccenepa.htm   17   : Our Stolen Future New insights from scientific research, Low dose effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/lowdose/lowdose.htm   End of T.R. note. Compare the members of American Chemistry Council   to such industries as mentioned at "Trade Secrets" (26   ). End T.R. ________________________________________________   "This bill assumes the mere detection of a chemical at any level is harmful," Shestek said. "That's contradictory to what the folks at (the federal Centers for Disease Control) say when they do their own biomonitoring program. ___ Rhetoric;  The CDC only tested "healthy people" and found "levels of concern" - end note TR ___- "Our view is it's really the beginning. What's necessary is additional research to determine which levels of a chemical may cause health effects and what level may be trivial." Other business groups opposing the bill include the California Chamber of Commerce   , T.R:> Appears to have numerous employees with titles for government interactions. The American Electronics Association   , see 26   Trade Secrets, motivated by liability issues 26   ? the Western States Petroleum Association   T.R:> (members consist of oil companies raping us at the pump). See 26   Trade Secrets, motivated by liability issues 26   ? The Union of Concerned Scientists have an action page about fighting such an issue. http://ucsaction.org/campaign/3_29_06_CAFE_light_truck_rule?rk=7dAq7zF16XrbW   and the California League of Food Processors   (26?)   T.R:> When the Center for Disease Control was asked what the main source of exposure to toxic chemicals was in people, they said "food"( Archived 144 ). Archived 144   : Title of article; "Troubling chemicals detected in people", by Daniel P. Jones , The Hartford Courant , Published by The Seattle Times Company Posted at 12:00 a.m. Pacific; Saturday, August 26, 2000 , reposted from the Archive at http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/tcdip.html   Current membership includes the most powerful brand names in the United States food business, as well as the largest producers of private label and institutional food products. Organizations such as this are behind the removal of label laws on food items, rendering the labels useless. The Union of Concerned Scientists have a "Take Action" link at their web site. Their form will mail all of your government representatives, from your zip code, for you. http://ucsaction.org/ucsaction/home.html   Excerpt from the UCS: Tell the Senate to Protect Food Safety Laws   ! The National Uniformity for Food Act passed the House on March 8 and now moves to the Senate. If this bill becomes law, state food safety and labeling laws—including those that provide consumers information about potential carcinogens, allergens, production methods, and genetically engineered ingredients—will be wiped out in favor of the federal government's "uniform" lowest common denominator. http://ucsaction.org/ucsaction/home.html   ______________________________________________- T.R:> Google search 157   : POISON FOR PROFIT CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN, By Ashley Simmons Hotz May 15, 2002 The huge transnational companies that produce toxic chemicals found in pesticides, herbicides and industrial and household products profit not only from the sale of these products, but also from the symptoms and chronic illnesses that they can trigger. Censored, not archived, but was posted at: http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html Since "Poison For Profit" has been censored and even removed from the Archives Wayback Machine, I have uploaded a pdf version of the report, Poison_for_Profit.pdf 26k Also of interest (though I have only read the review) POISONED for PROFIT The FILM And these companies could be held liable, even if one of their company does not profit from treating a toxic chemical exposure as a disease.157a   U.S. Lags in Toxicity Data, Wednesday, May 3, 2000, Los Angeles Times Congressional study reviewed more than 1,400 chemicals that pose potential threats to human health and found that only 6% are being tracked by HHS and the EPA. http://web.archive.org/web/20041027092634/http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/lack.html   157e   : Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health. 2nd ed. Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity. 1999. 250 pp. ISBN 1567511627 ABSTRACTS OF NEW BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, American Journal of Public Health, Jul99, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p1120, 2p. http://web.archive.org/web/20041024185749/http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/td.html   157g   : Title: Scientists claim President Bush bends data, Distortions are said to serve policy goals More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, have issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration has systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weapons at home and abroad. The International Herald Tribune 02-18-2004 | www.iht.com   , by James Glanz http://www.iht.com/articles/130372.html   Archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20050505045911/http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/UCSspeak.html   Frankly, I can not imagine a health care system that could be viable, so long as it ignores the "probable causes" and only treats the symptoms. End of T.R. Note. _______________________________________________ But people living in areas facing serious contamination and health issues welcomed the proposal. Neighbors of the Santa Susana lab have been concerned for years about the potential health effects caused by the extensive contamination of heavy metals and radiation present in the soil and groundwater near the site. Bonnie Klea, an activist who has lived near the Santa Susana lab for 35 years and worked there in the 1960s, said she and other neighbors had their hair tested last year and found high levels of harmful materials such as uranium and tin. T.R:> Hair tests, Doctors Data,http://www.doctorsdata.com/   http://www.doctorsdata.com/test_info.asp?id=2   She said other Californians would gain by learning the levels of harmful materials in their own bodies. "I think it's a very, very good idea," said Klea, who was treated for bladder cancer 10 years ago that she believes was caused by exposure from the lab. "We've had these corporations be in denial all these years that they caused any of the neighbors harm." The program would cost an estimated $3 million to $5 million, but would be eligible for $1.7 million from the federal government, Ortiz said. The nature of the study and how to use the data it generates would be determined by an advisory panel to be appointed by state officials and legislators. But those involved with authoring the bill said they could very likely look at geographic cancer clusters and links to environmental contamination. "If the scientists and physicians in the Department of Health or Cal-EPA say we're concerned about clusters that are occurring in the San Fernando Valley ... let's look at these categories of chemicals and biomonitor and see do we get any information out of that biomonitoring that leads us to say this might be a link," said Donna Brownsey, a lobbyist for the Breast Cancer Fund, which is co-sponsoring the bill. T.R:> See above notations about, 26   Trade Secrets, web page from Bill Moyers Public Broadcasting show End of T.R. note. "And then do the additional medical research to see if that pans out." Harrison Sheppard, (916) 446-6723 harrison.sheppard@dailynews.com End of article, State may launch biomonitoring By Harrison Sheppard, Sacramento Bureau LA Daily News

Notes:

A Congressional Report showed
that less than 6% of  known cancer
causing chemicals are tracked in
health care as the cause of cancers.

Title of newspaper article;

U.S. Lags in Toxicity Data
Wednesday, May 3, 2000
Los Angeles Times, By SUNNY KAPLAN
is archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20050426200055/www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/lack.html

The link to the Congressional Report in
question at the above linked in newspaper
story is at http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t000502a.html

Congress has introduced critical legislation to
create a national program combining data from
disease registries, environmental pollution
reporting and biomonitoring programs,
which measures the presence of chemicals in
your body, to connect the dots between
environmental exposures and major health
concerns.

Current events about this can be found at:

H.R.3426:
Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Act of 2009
Official government data, breaking news and blog coverage,
public comments and user community for
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3426/show
You can track the bill (H.R.3426) which Representatives
support and wnich oppose it plus more at:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3426/show#users_tracking

A database that lists illnesses with the toxic chemicals
that can cause them is a work in progress because of
"incomplete data". For instance, it mostly addresses
illnesses by known chemical exposures that can cause
the symptoms of that given illness. But it ignores the
The Toxic Lotto, as well as other factors that I discuss at
"Toxic Revelations".

The database is now linked in with a
review and commentary at my alternate

Toxic Reverend Tribe profile:>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

End of excerpts from
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/


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The article concerns a biomonitoring
program that was started with
California Senate Bill 1379
and the lobbyist organizations
that attempted to block it's passage.
 Some advocates feel was it was "compromised". 

T he CDC has said that the main source of many of the
toxic chemicals that they found in healthy American's is
 FOOD ( Archived 144 ).  A simple Google search
on "Organic Scam", now reveals multiple instances of
"organic corruption".

 I have also posted a blog about this titled;
 
Organic Scams and The Politics of Food (free movie)
plus Action Networks & Resources  (view blog)
Posted at The Toxic Reverend Myspace profile
http://www.myspace.com/toxicreverend

The confusion of such contradictions has only just
begun.

 A researcher for the EPA named Lance Wallace
studied indoor air quality for over twenty years has
said, "the majority of toxic chemical exposure occurs
in our own homes (3). And the indoor air is usually
worse than a smog filled large city (3). 


 Toxic Deception ( 81) is how
 the Chemical Industry Manipulates
Science, Bends the Law and Endangers
Your Health.

More than 60 influential scientists, including 40 Nobel laureates, have issued a statement asserting that the Bush administration has systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weapons at home and abroad.

The sweeping accusations (167) on Wednesday (02-18-2004) were discussed later in a conference call organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an independent organization that focuses on technical issues and has often taken stands at odds with administration policy. The organization also issued a 38-page report Wednesday. http://www.ucsusa.org/

   The Union Of Concerned Scientists consists of
more than 60 influential scientists, including over 40
Nobel Laureates. They are mobilizing scientists and
citizens alike to push for reforms that will protect our
health, safety, and environment. They have a web site
and have exposed the political corruption of the
FDA, EPA and a few other government agencies :>

Integrity In Science
Union Of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/

Another organization that is working on this is:>

Integrity In Science Project
The Center for Science in the Public Interest
http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/

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81 American Journal of Public Health
Jul99, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p1120, 2
ABSTRACTS OF NEW BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH,  Toxic Deception
http://web.archive.org/web/20050818173836/www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/td.html

Leading medical providers like the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are establishing special programs to give platinum service to the well-heeled. Depending on the program, the super-rich customers may receive massages and sauna time along with their physical, house calls, and step-to-the-front-of-the-line service in testing facilities (158). And Linda Peeno MD of whom gave sworn testimony to the House of Representatives on the subject of "Denial of Health Care Services" to the insured ( 20a, 20b). In short, "Justice has been sold" (101) and millions of dollars put into "fixing the sale" ( 49). The Los Angeles Times reported that, "Drug Companies, HMO's Spend Big To Stop New Laws". They donated hundreds of millions of dollars to political election campaigns (49, 159 ). While apparently buying out "grass root organizations (68). While they do the "Poison for Profit" (157).

The simple facts are that chemical companies developed chemical and biological weapons for our country. Back in World War One and Two, they made things like nerve gas. At some point, the watered down the nerve gas and started calling them "pesticides". This report (157) documents that the chemical companies and the pharmaceutical companies are really controlled by the same people.

Now that is a business plan, called "Poison for Profit" (157). Even more disturbing is what is termed "the revolving door" from these companies and their executives into many of the high ranking administration offices of our government, in Washington DC. From the National Institute of Health to the Food and Drug Administration and beyond.

"The revolving door" is easily shown with an Internet www.google.com search term, "revolving door washington DC drugs chemical companies".

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  Click the link for Archived reference material that
is posted at
Archived Reference Material List:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060810082417/http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/donebib.html
Partial list of reference material follows:

3: 75% of the Typical American's Exposure to Toxic Chemical's
Occurs Indoors Much of which occurs in their own homes.
Article title;
 YOU'RE MUCH CLOSER TO SOURCES OF INDOOR
POLLUTION, EPA WARNS,
"simple steps to minimize exposure"
by MAX GATES., pub. Seattle Times. Seattle, Wash.: Oct 2, 1989. pg. C.8
Archived at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050305211123/http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/75perc.html

81: Toxic Deception: <(book title and book review title)
How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends
the Law and Endangers Your Health.
American Journal of Public Health Jul99, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p1120, 2
2nd ed. Dan Fagin,
Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity.
1999. 250 pp. ISBN 1567511627
ABSTRACTS OF NEW BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH,
http://web.archive.org/web/20050818173836/www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/td.html

Archived 144

167: Scientists claim President  Bush bends data, 
Distortions are said to serve policy goals    
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com, by James Glanz 02-18-2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20050505045911/www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/UCSspeak.html

_

From another perspective: "All about the money"

The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Posted at:
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html
Excerpts:
Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com

The article appears to have been moved to their archives.
A copy is posted at: Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/medical_bills_play_a.php
The article can also be found with the Google search terms;
"Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times"

Excerpts:

The study found that medical bills, plus related problems
such as lost wages for the ill and their caregivers,
contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies filed in 2007.

Medical insurance isn't much help, either. About 78% of
bankruptcy filers burdened by healthcare expenses were
insured, according to the survey, to be published in the
August issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

End of excerpts from:

Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-medical-bankruptcy4-2009jun04,1,4411773.story
The article appears to have been moved to their archives.
Google search terms to find a copy:
Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies study says
By Lisa Girion June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times
A copy is posted at: Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/medical_bills_play_a.php

The entire study can be downloaded from:

Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://pnhp.org/
at
http://pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/

The hospitals' share of the premium dollar is about 38 percent, experts said.  Reference # 53 and or
# 15 at
 Red Collar Crime In Sonoma County CA


So 62% of the medical insurance premium goes
to the insurance company, middlemen,
lobbyists and whom ever else.  Nearly two
thirds of health care insurance premium money
actually goes to medical care "middle men"
(# 53 ).

From my Archived reference material:
The old reference page is Archived at the Wayback Machine Internet Archives at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060810082417/http://www.angelfire.com/in/sickbuildingsyndrome/donebib.html


Reference # 53
and or
# 15 at
 Red Collar Crime In Sonoma County CA

Excerpt:

Although premiums paid by employers in California increased 86 percent between 1989 and 1994, they rose only 4 percent from 1994 to 1997, according a study done for the California Medical Association. The flattening of premiums resulted in doctors' practices and hospitals having to absorb rising medical service costs.

Average monthly HMO premiums in 1999 were lower in California than the rest of the nation: $145 for a single person in California compared with $169 in the United States, and $405 for a family in California compared with $445 average in the entire country, according to a survey by the Kaiser Foundation and UC Berkeley. The hospitals' share of the premium dollar is about 38 percent, experts said.

Press Democrat March 4, 2001
RURAL HOSPITALS IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
FINANCIAL PRESSURES FORCING BIG CHANGES AT COUNTY'S SMALL MEDICAL CENTERS
By BLEYS W. ROSE

Reference material posted at this posting includes:
Webmasters Notes:

104: Gold in Them Thar Ills, Sutter Health, tapped by supes to run Community Hospital, mines big bucks in health care, but is it at patients' expense? By Bruce Robinson 1-11-96
More at: # 53 and or # 15


Specifically, testing and monitoring chronically ill
patients for various toxic chemical exposures that
are limited by a geographic area seem questionable
when the main sources are from our homes and food.

The bill discussed in this article did pass and did create
The Biomonitoring Program in California.
It is now underway. The past "Public Input Meetings" with the nine member scientific advisory panel that decided who gets tested for what and how they will get tested is posted at

The California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/multimedia/biomon/index.html


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Archived links:>

The Victims	"I am here to bear witness for all those who have no voices.  The dead, the injured and those who don't know they are poisoned yet." -Steve Tvedten About Pesticide Poisoning and Alternatives	The Injured

Current web page for Steve Tvedten is
Get Set http://www.getipm.com/

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 Toxic Deception ( 81) is how
 the Chemical Industry Manipulates
Science, Bends the Law and Endangers
Your Health.
Reference 81 American Journal of Public Health
July 1999, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p1120, 2



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