Word: ruckelshauses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...
...Ruckelshaus' move appeared dramatic, but, in fact, the action was long overdue. Scientists have long believed that the chemical, used primarily as a fumigant after the grain has been harvested, causes cancer and birth defects in laboratory animals, even in minute quantities. Industry spokesmen and EPA officials have often argued that there is no firm evidence linking the chemical to cancer in humans, but longterm studies have shown EDB to be carcinogenic in rats and mice. For the time being, consumers everywhere are the unwitting guinea pigs who will demonstrate the pesticide's effect on human health...
...proposed to cancel all food-related use (EDB is also added to gasoline to prevent lead deposits in engines). But then came the change in administrations and, with strong chemical industry lobbying against any restrictions, no action was taken under now-infamous EPA administrator Anne Burford Last September, Ruckelshaus cancelled use of EDB as a soil fumigant, but only after significant amounts of residues of the chemical showed up in the ground water in several states. The current order extends the ban to use on grain after harvesting, but is by no means conclusive; citrus products, also often treated with...
...despite the headlines, Ruckelshaus' restrictions on EDB use have done relatively little to counter the still more widespread threat which the use and overuse of pesticides in America poses. When he presented the recent order, the EPA administrator reassured the press that the country is not facing a "public health emergency:" yet such a crisis may be just around the corner. EDB is only one of scores of pesticides in use across the country that are suspected of threatening human health, and are showing up in food and water supplies in many states...
...Meese was nominally in charge of domestic policy coordination.) After three years of almost daily contact with Reagan, one White House aide was not sure that the President knew his first name. At a January meeting with five Governors to discuss acid rain, Reagan repeatedly called EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus...