Word: edb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidentially appointed bureaucrats and replaced them with able administrators. He took the task of cleaning up toxic-waste dumps away from officials friendly to polluters. Ruckelshaus ordered that nearly all of the lead in gasoline be phased out by 1986 and banned the use of the cancer-causing pesticide EDB...
...course, the government is not dragging Tony the Tiger into the nuclear age for nothing. The plan they say is the lesser of two evils. In the past, farmers have used the controversial Ethylene Dibromide (EDB) as a pesticide. But scientists have determined that EDB causes cancer, and so food growing companies have been scurrying to find replacements for the dangerous chemical. The leading chemical candidates for substitutes, namely methyl bromide and aluminum phosphide, are believed to be as harmful as EDB...
...reassuring that the government has finally reacted to concerns over EDB, but its proposed solution hardly appears to resolve the issue. The lesser of two evils just may not be good enough...
Even in the smallest samples, the odds of EDB molecules making contact with cells "are odds we'd all like in a lottery but not odds we'd want in adjusting to a carcinogen," said Dr. David Ozonoff, president of the Massachusetts Public Health Association...
Although the panel strongly praised the watchdog efforts of State Department of Public Health, the department can only do "a certain amount of monitoring to enforce the limit it's set," said Nancy Ridley, who directs the EDB testing program in Massachusetts...