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“Scares about tiny traces of synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides, are a distraction from important risks. The amounts of pesticide residues ingested are so small, relative to levels that have been shown to have toxicological effects, they are toxicologically implausible as health risks.” — Dr. Bruce Ames, quoted in the Canadian periodical Chatelaine (July 26, 2000)
“…politically, not toxicologically, driven.” — Marcia van Gemert, retired chief of the Toxicology Branch of the EPA’s Office of Pesticides Programs, describing EWG’s attacks on pesticides (April 23, 1998)
“EWG’s approach is more alarmist politics and it lacks sound scientific health or risk assessment information.” — Sheldon R. Jones, director of the Arizona Department of Agriculture, in a 1999 speech titled “The Environmental Working Group: Working for No One”
“[T]he F.D.A. has criticized the Environmental Working Group’s report for its methodology and conclusions.” — The New York Times, referring to a 1993 EWG report making wild and unsubstantiated claims about the health effects of pesticide exposure (June 27, 1993)
“…an attempt to scare parents over something that is no threat to their children’s health.” — Dr. Bruce Ames, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of California at Berkeley, describing “Pesticides in Baby Food,” a 1995 EWG report published in cooperation with the Tides Foundation
“The Alar scare of three years ago shows what can happen when science is taken out of context or the risks of a product are blown out of proportion.” — American Medical Association press release (February 1992)
“10 YEARS AFTER ALAR, APPLES STILL NEED A CLEANUP” — Headline of a full-page New York Times advertisement run by the Environmental Working Group in 1999, paid for by a grant from the Florence & John Schumann Foundation, whose principal trustee is PBS’s long-time environmental scaremonger Bill Moyers
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