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Perspective

Apr. 10, 2009

What You Don't Know About Chemicals Could Hurt You - Or Not

You might think that after 23 years, we would be done listing the chemicals "known" to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity - but you would be wrong, writes Lisa L. Halko.

By Lisa L. Halko

Twenty years ago, California voters passed Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. Unless they read the ballot pamphlet, they probably thought it had something to do with drinking water. (In fact, public water supplies are exempt from Proposition 65.) If they did read the ballot pamphlet, they learned that Proposition 65 would require warnings before Californians were exposed to chemicals "known" to cause cancer or bir...

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