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As a part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap, the agency issued the first in a series of Toxic...

It has been 25 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, an amendment to the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, which mandated that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) test all pesticide chemicals used in food for endocrine disruption. Soon after the law passed, EPA established the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee (EDSTAC) to provide recommendations to the agency on how its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) should work....

From my colleagues in kansas city some schools are going mask optional this week is certainly very he, very concerning to me. i think we need to continue with these layers of protection. testing being one important part. >> part of it seems to be symptomatic of the fact we just dont have an effective testing strategy. were rationing the tests because we dont have enough of them. we certainly dont have them distributed in a comprehensive and uniform way. i want to talk to you about this data on h...

More likely to change outcomes. >> but changing outcomes, does this targeted testing strategy have merit in your view? >> it depends what our priorities are. i dont think they have to be mutually exclusive. i get nervous when were pitting one thing against another. the strategies can be different. making sure that the elderly, perhaps more vulnerable person, has early access to things like monoclonals or other treatments to prevent them from going to the hospital if they become sick. certainly i...

When there is a nationwide federal distribution really up in the air. and new research now showing that it is questioning the reliability of detecting the omicron by the widely used rapid test. how do you square that, sir. >> you know, we know that testing is a part of overall strategy that should be used to keep our schools open. vaccination efforts are also big part of that strategy. we have seen them work. as schools come in, they should be thinking about a testing strategy to make sure stude...

And there are more questions than there are answers about this testing strategy. >> whos making the 500 million tests? they dont have contracts yet, but jen psaki said a few minutes ago theyre not worried about that. they think they can get those tests. who is building this website where were all going to go and order these tests? we recall what happened with the obamacare rollout the obama administration. thats not an easy thing to build. what happens after you get a test? 300 million americans...

Tests that they have acquired, we would blow through those tests with the current screening requirements in about five days. they have got about 160 million a month planned for the next three months. you would need 2 billion a month to keep up with their own guidance. they have not moved their guidance from a universal testing protocol to a selective testing strategy. we are still waiting to hear from them about that. >> katie: speaking of hearing from them today we heard from president joe bide...

Your insight. thanks for the time. >> thank you. and a further discussion of covid policies and white houses testing strategy and what you can do to keep you and your family safe during the latest covid surge will be on "state of the union" later this morning at 9:00 a.m. with dr. anthony fauci. state of the union with jake tapper and dana bash on cnn. meanwhile, at least three people are now missing after a fast-moving wildfire tore through boulder, colorado. giving all three lived in homes...

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