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...Bishop, who spent eight years analyzing theresults of animal tests as a toxicologist for theCommonwealth of Massachusetts, says animalresearch is also scientifically questionable...
...preponderance of seafood that reaches the consumer is safe, clean and free of contaminants and chemicals," Kessler , maintains. Researchers at the National Academy of Science came to essentially the same conclusion last year in a report on seafood safety. "There are some areas of concern," says Farid Ahmed, the toxicologist who oversaw the report, but "basically the fish supply is safe...
...What did the toxicologist's report show...
...conclusions of a research meeting at which some evidence favorable to dioxin was presented. Many of the participants did not realize that the conference had been underwritten in part with industry funds. "I agree that there is a lot of new science about dioxin," says Ellen Silbergeld, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland who attended the meeting. "But I don't agree over how that new knowledge should be applied...
...radiation and dioxin-containing herbicides, could be conceiving children with serious physical and mental abnormalities. Although the reports do not prove that such damage is occurring, the increasing number of studies reflects a concern about the issue that some experts feel is long overdue. Says Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland: "There has been a sense ((among scientists studying birth defects)) that reproduction is something that women do, and that men don't contribute very much. That is simply not true...