Very quickly, there's very little, if any, human health data on the mixtures of chemicals we're talking about. For instance, we tested for 68 chemicals in our study, and we found 46 on average in everybody. We don't know the human health effects of that mixture of very different chemicals in our bodies.
I should add that it's very different compared to other consumer products in our lives. For instance, manufacturers of automobiles have to give a warranty on the safety of a vehicle before it can be put on the road. If there's a problem with the vehicle, it's recalled pretty quickly. The same sort of safety standard doesn't seem to apply to the chemicals we're talking about.
Mr. Glover has pointed out that there are two different safety standards, one for new substances and one for the 23,000 grandfathered chemicals.