E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/science/earth/19epa.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=expected%20to%20regulate%20carbon%20dioxide&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Subject: re: E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   Now that the EPA will assert regulatory authority over carbon dioxide dumped into our atmosphere, it is time to consider regularizing other federal oversight and regulation. Particularly, it is irrational that the Food and Drug Agency has authority over foods and drugs, but not over nutritional supplements which are mysteriously defined as being neither foods nor drugs. This loophole permits thousands of products onto the American market without testing at an annual cost of billions of dollars and untold damage to our nation's health. When I voted for change, that included a government that shows more consistent interest in the nation's well-being than in the nutraceutical industry's campaign contributions.

Barry Levine