Through a number of executive orders, and with the participation of the most pro-business Supreme Court in history, the Bush Administration is attempting to limit the right to sue for damages caused by products if such products have already been approved by the FDA.
The understaffed agency that has no sanctioning recourse against products if, after approval, they do turn out to cause harm.
Things like baby bottles.
And while we're compiling all the agencies who should be regulating a product, the EPA jumps in. Their toxicologist- Dr. Earl Gray!- notes his personal concern, but off record so as not to imply that the EPA takes issue with the Executive Office's decision to continue supporting the production of this hazardous chemical to go into the mouths of babies. Perhaps because while the threat is real, he's not?
