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...sugar juices. The beverage companies at first pushed back against restrictions in the high schools: Magaziner says they argued that if these kids were almost old enough to fight in Iraq, why should they be denied their choice of soda? The companies ultimately relented, but with so many product lines and so many portion sizes, working out the details took time. Says Magaziner: "We negotiated drink by drink with them, literally." Most of the time it was Magaziner who did the jawboning. Only when things got stuck would he bring in Clinton to give the participants a presidential push...
...Gass's efforts to make the technology an industrywide standard have gone nowhere. James O'Reilley, a product-liability expert at the University of Cincinnati, says other companies are probably concerned about risk and cost. "Product-liability issues are typically low on the agenda when introducing new products," he says. "Then the focus is going to be, What happens if it doesn't work...
...MSDSes told me more about what we don't know than about what we do. Take Mr. Clean's Ultra All Purpose Cleaner, with ingredients like "surfactant (unspecified)." With another Mr. Clean ingredient, the MSDS informed me that there is "no information about the [product's] potential for carcinogenicity." I was able to follow the trail of one chemical, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, which evidently appears in everything from brake fluid to hair dye. Although the MSDS measures workplace exposure, which can be far greater than the amount one would encounter at home, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank toxnet.nlm.nih.gov warned...
Beyond that, formulas are updated frequently; firms say they conceal ingredients to maintain trade secrets. It's almost impossible for a chemist, never mind consumers, to keep up. Environmental organizations and producers of eco-products told me to be wary. When I called the Soap and Detergent Association, a spokesman assured me that cleansers have never been proved to be carcinogenic (which doesn't mean that they've proved not to be) and that alkylphenols, which can imitate estrogen in the body and are commonly used as surfactants, have a "negligible" environmental impact. "All chemicals are toxic at some exposure...
...must play a role in shaping the Democratic Party, he argues that “voters don’t, and should not be expected to, respond to policies.” If the switch in public discourse away from the common good wasn’t entirely the product of Democratic decisions, a return to the common good may not be a simple matter of choice. Even if Democrats could return to the political climate of 1960, they would still have a serious problem: The Democrats may want to be the party of the common good, but I doubt...