Right To Know
Cry Wolf Quotes
The public does not have [an] inherent right to know.
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John Yewell, director of industrial safety and health for the California State Chamber of Commerce.
Labeling all pipes and containers could cost the chemical industry $100 million a year.
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Garth Fort, lobbyist for the Monsanto Company.
We have 1,000 products. If every state has different reporting requirements, we’d have to produce 50,000 different [Material Safety Data Sheets].
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Garth Fort, lobbyist for the Monsanto Company.
When the public hears about right-to-know, they think ‘Gee, that sounds great’. But all the information they’re going to get under these laws is a list of plant chemicals that will sit on someone’s kitchen table until it’s thrown away.
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Ralph Engel, president of the Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association.
