The burden of proof for the safety of chemical ingredients in products should be on corporations to establish safety before products reach the market.

“to me the burden of proof is upside down there should be a burden of proof on these companies to establish some agreed upon level of safety before they find their way into these products that is not the case”

While modern life is safer than in previous eras, there is a clear, evidence-based need to reduce human exposure to persistent chemicals to improve long-term health outcomes.

“in many ways we are living in the safest kind of world Humanity has ever known and you think about uh even going back four generations um before the Advent of of penicillin and other an antibiotics you could expect to lose a third or half of your children to disease before they reach adulthood”