Government health agencies are failing to protect the public from avoidable exposure to persistent organic pollutants, which contaminate all animal fat. Cancer Action NY has sought to motivate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the New York State Department of Health and numerous county health departments to provide POPs exposure reduction education to Americans.
The government health agencies have demonstrated a great hesitancy to provide POPs exposure reduction education due to the fact that this education involves informing the public that the food supply has become contaminated with cancer causing chemicals that last for long periods of time in the environment and in people's bodies. The chemical and food corporations oppose any such education. Corporations rule in Washington. Thus it is going to take a huge amount of public pressure to force the federal government health agencies to educate on POPs exposure reduction.
Cancer Action NY is working in a number of New York State counties to bring about the establishment of POPs exposure reduction education programs in the county public health departments.
Ted Baker, Program Director and Finger Lakes Morning News Host, Finger Lakes News Radio
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