Link borrowed from WShetterly

[cyrano]

Investigative journalist Mark Schapiro discusses why companies that manufacture hazard-free products for the European Union often produce toxin-filled versions of the same items for America and developing countries.

Of course, this is leftie radical AlterNet, and there may be a good solid reason that companies want to poison us. Perhaps it's in our best interest.

Comments

[denyse.livejournal.com]

Very interesting! And I have noticed that there's a bit of the 'until we have a study that shows overwhelmingly that exposure to something kills people and it couldn't possibly have come from any other confounding factor we're not going go conclude that it's dangerous' going around. There is a remarkable disparity between what the EU allows and what the US allows in many things.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

While I understand the theory behind "UWHASTSOTETSKPAICPHCFAOCFWNGTGCTID" and support some balance between the two poles, I suspect that corporate control of regulation and law mean that the US leans further to that pole than I feel at all safe or comfortable with.