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Posted Mon Aug 30 2010: from Center for Investigative Reporting:
Under fire from industry, scientific panel is 'gutted' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1283189229
Five out of nine members of a scientific panel that advises the state on toxic chemicals have been fired in recent weeks, following disputes with the chemical industry and a conservative group that targets environmental laws... Among the dismissed members is panel chairman John Froines, who also heads the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA's School of Public Health. Froines has served on the panel since it was founded and has been its chairman since 1998. Froines says he learned of his dismissal July 22 in a two-sentence letter from Assembly Speaker John A. Perez, D-Los Angeles. Panel members, including Froines, have come under fire over the years when their designation of certain substances as toxic came at a cost to industry.
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Given the toxic relationship between business and science, I'd suggest purchasing one of these.

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