What the Chemical Industry Didn’t Want You to Know

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-04-08

Summary:

"Tucked away in an Oregon barn for decades was a collection of internal documents, correspondence, and chemical safety studies detailing the lengths the chemical industry took to conceal the dangers of their products.  

The documents in this collection—dubbed the “Poison Papers”—allege fraudulent chemical safety testing, corporate concealment of chemical dangers, and collusion between the industry and the regulators who were supposed to be protecting the public and environment. Commonly used herbicides like Roundup (glyphosate), dicamba, atrazine, and 2,4-D feature prominently among the papers, as do nearly every large chemical corporation. 

Now, thanks to the combined efforts of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and the Bioscience Resource Project (BRP), this collection is available online for the first time....

The Poison Papers are the digitization of about three tons of files from litigation against Monsanto, litigation involving some of the Dow Chemicals products, open records requests, and Freedom of Information Act requests to the federal government as well as state agencies. It represents documents that were discovered over the past 40 years but some of the documents, including scientific studies, are older than that because they are from litigation...."

Link:

https://www.classaction.com/news/chemical-industry-poison-papers/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.chemistry oa.industry oa.interviews oa.digitization oa.foi oa.litigation oa.preservation oa.people

Date tagged:

04/08/2019, 12:51

Date published:

04/08/2019, 08:51