overly fastidious regula- tion, in such areas as job safety, toxic waste, air and water pollution.
Thus, the Delaney Amendment (1958) banned any food additive found to cause cancer in aiz-y animal in a single study, despite scientists' own ingrained wariness and their emphasis on duplicatable results. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, overwhelmed its responsibility for evaluating thousands of new chemicals, has drawn up "generic" guidelines that provide answers in advance...