Bush EPA to Test Chemicals on Babies

From Daily kos

This is barbaric.

This program will use poor children in Florida as lab rats for the chemical industry.

Here is the study...
Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS) to better understand how young children come into contact with pesticides and other chemicals in their homes. Children can come into contact with various chemicals in their homes through the air they breathe, food they eat and the surfaces they touch.
http://www.epa.gov/cheers/

Here is what the families agree to do...

"The children chosen to participate must live in homes with potentially high pesticide use. Their parents must agree to spray or have pesticides sprayed inside their homes routinely during the two-year study period, and will receive up to $970 for participating.
The homes and children will be monitored five or six times during the study for exposure levels before and after pesticide applications. Chemical concentrations will be measured in air, dust, and urine samples, and by analyzing chemicals absorbed in clothing."
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8242/8242notw3.html

This experiment on babies is at least partly funded by Bush's friends in the chemical industry.