I just had a point with emerging chemicals. For example, everybody liked this idea of body washes that had antimicrobial properties, and the personal care product companies started to load nano-silver into these products, which bioaccumulate. They're persistent in the environment. There's no connection between adding something to a personal care product and water quality. There's no scrutinization process that connects those two right now, which leads us to point to this precautionary approach in order to avoid those things before you allow them. If there was some linkage between regulation of any product that ultimately may make its way into the water body, I think you could actually start to be a little more proactive than reactive.
On April 1st, 2014. See this statement in context.