Lobby to Hide Cancer Dangers Has Government's Helping Hand

By Michelle Chen, In These Times
Posted on November 19, 2007, Printed on November 19, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/67364/

Industry special interests are burying information on cancer-causing chemicals and, according to watchdog groups, the government is helping them do it -- in the name of "data quality."

In a study of the National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program, OMB Watch, a DC-based policy-research group, reports that industry is frustrating the work of government researchers with petitions that are light on science but heavy with accusations of anti-business "bias."