Ang is in the right place at the right time for this 'feel good' legislation. HOWEVER, like stated so many times before.........how the heck do they enforce this? This legislative body makes more freakin' laws that are almost impossible to enforce.
With the right approach, all people have to do is get the word out on how 'supposedly' dangerous this stuff is. Then leave it up to the people. Let the pediatricians tell these young mothers about the dangers. Some already have. And guess what? These young mothers went out and tried to buy glass bottles and there were NONE to be found!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I was just wondering if Sal used their PCB ridden breast milk or the store bought breast animal based feedings....and if so in what container was the delivery done?
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Legislator’s argument in support of BPA ban is seriously flawed
Re May 11 article, “Hearing set on BPA plastics ban”: In this era of mistrust of legislators’ motives and abilities, it was particularly disheartening to read a statement attributed to those who will influence the BPA [bisphenol A] banning question. The legislator [Brian Gordon] has confused the use of plasticizers to soften a plastic and the use of BPA. In fact, BPA adds rigidity to plastic, not to its softening. This rigidity is perhaps BPA’s most significant contribution. If you could photograph a BPA molecule, the picture would look similar to a rigid stick, adding rigidity to the plastic. This rigidity also adds to the environmental stability of the plastic. Do you hear of complaints that these plastic products have short shelf lives because they fall apart after a few uses? In addition, equating BPA to having an estrogenic component also confuses this material with others that are not used in the production of these plastics. In fact, extensive studies attempting to show estrogenic properties with the other materials have not supported their associated correlation, either. It appears our decision makers have heard a little here and there, and think they have an issue to which their names might be associated. They are equating these properties with something unrelated and [which is] actually contra-supportive of the equated properties.
JOHN R. SOWA Glenville The writer is a professor emeritus of chemistry at Union College.
It appears our decision makers have heard a little here and there, and think they have an issue to which their names might be associated.
Our so called decision makers seem to do this with everything!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
this guy is a streunce and knows nothing he just wants to knock the demos and conservs
Sal and 'the ones in the know' must know something that we don't about Ang, his buddy. Must be that Ang is really a dem in ideology even though he isn't registered as one, huh?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Correction Yesterday’s letter on the proposed BPA ban in Schenectady County inadvertently attributed a stance opposing the chemical to Legislator Brian Gordon. The position, reported in a May 11 Gazette article, was, in fact, that of UAlbany professor David O. Carpenter. The county Legislature’s Health Committee, chaired by Gordon, did conduct a public hearing on the proposal May 14, but took no action. The bill was proposed by Legislator Angelo Santabarbara.
Who in their right mind would vote against “The Protection of Toddlers and Babies Act?” No one, except the courageous. In my opinion, that’s why Angelo Santabarbra named it such. It should be called the “Ban Bishpenol-A in Plastics Act.” There is a growing envirofascist movement in this country in which sound science and decades of proven research are trumped by cuddly sounding, let’ssave-the-children, feel-good legislation that results in unintended consequences. BPA [Ban Bishpenol-A] has been around for 45 years, had 1,700 peer-reviewed scientific studies performed on it, and been ruled safe for use by the Centers for Disease Control, the FDA, the National Toxicology Program, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the European Food Safety Commission. But our Schenectady County legislators care about the children more than these respected institutions. To paraphrase Lincoln, “We all profess for liberty. For some it means to do as you please with yourself and the product of your labor. For others, you do as you please with other men, and the product of their labor. These are two incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.” Show a little courage and vote against this ban. It is not a county issue.
Spot on letter by Brian McGarry, my running mate in the Conservative Party Committee elections last year. As I have professed, this is not a county issue. Further, it is unenforceable.
They are proposing a ban on the "sales" of these plastics, but not the "use" of them. So people can go out of the county to purchase these items, which will give the surrounding counties the sales tax revenue.
How will the county government enforce the sale of the bottles in Schenectady county? Will they hire teams of inspectors to inspect each retail establishment in the county and test the chemical composition of any and all plastic containers displayed on the shelves? Are they prepared to defend the county against lawsuits brought about by a large retailer (e.g., warehouse club, supermarket, discount retailer, etc.) who is charged with violating the sales ban? Or, will this legislation be passed with the hopes that merchants will simply comply?
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DEM and CONS? Who? Where? Please tell us more. The Chemist is confused not the politicians like Brian Gordon? lol.
