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[quote=Anonymous]If you want your minds really blown, go look up the history of the Industrial Bio Test Lab scandal. For decades IBT conducted like 80% of toxicity testing in the United States. It was discovered years later that much of the work they did was fraudulent.  They were doing tests on thousands and thousands of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc used in everything from pesticides, to food, to drugs, to cosmetics and deeming them safe.  At one point they observed a chemical causing cancerous tumors in rodent studies, yet covered the data up and deemed the chemical to be safe for human exposure.  The scandal was eventually discovered and the govt claims to have audited all of the results, but the fact that IBT was in businesses for so long and had tested so many chemicals, I doubt the country truly has an accurate handle on what is really safe and what isn't. So much of that stuff from the IBT years still reverberates to this day, or is found as contaminats in our soil or water. [/quote]

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