The EPA, unlike the FDA, actually looks out for public safety

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The most important quote in this story about the EPA banning pressure treated lumber (which contains arsenic) is from Michael Brows, former general council at the EPA. He says, "The trouble with these product safety decisions is you get tremendous pressure." What he's talking about is pressure from the industry: pressure-treated lumber suppliers have absolutely no interest in taking arsenic-laced lumber off the market, regardless of the risks to human health.

It takes great courage and strict adherance to principles for an agency like the EPA do to the right thing, especially when it inevitably harms the profits of private industry. In contrast, the FDA has no such courage and routinely fails to look out for the safety of the public. The FDA almost always chooses industry profits (drug companies) over public safety, and would do well to learn from the higher integrity of the EPA.
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