Public Citizen strikes again

[tyauving_awa]

Ralph Nader's consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, has another "victory" to tout. Public Citizen (now headed by Joan Claybrook, the Carter era NHTSA head who wanted roll cages and rear wheel steering for motorcycles) campaigned the FDA to remove Cylert from the market. Why? The drug causes an increased rate of liver failure

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tangent.

[gogogrrl]

That's a rate of 1.6/100K/yr, well into the noise for mortality statistics.

This is a big factor in one aspect of my job that drives me freeking insane. In many cases, site clean up levels are based on a calculated cancer risk of 1 additional cancer per million people for residential use of the land, or 1 additional cancer per 100,000 people for industrial use of the land. And that calculation is based on conservative factors that are hucked into the equations. . .

Re: tangent.

[tyauving_awa]

To put that into perspective, when jagheterlelle and I drive to Stow tonight there'll be literally a one in a million chance of one us dying (knocks on wood).

How much do your clients spend to get from two per million to one per million? Is there another use for that cash that would save more lives?

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[xinie]

I wonder what the ratio is between what they spend and what they'd get sued for by someone who got cancer because of their pollution.

Mine.

[timothy_tim]

I get Sheedy if you both die!!!

[z_gryphon]

Also, "public citizen" is an absurd phrase. All citizens are, by definition, members of the public.