Testing for endocrine disruptors?

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is an excellent degreaser; polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a beauty for softening and cleaning up dry paint brushes.

I was just wondering what our groundwater has been and is being tested for?

I bet some faceless person has decided these endocrine disruptors are not to be on the "test for presence" list.

It is interesting to learn of the number of man-made chemicals which can interfere with hormones and DNA in mammals, fish and whatever.

Taxpayers should remind themselves that elected representatives do not always act in our best interest.

Only last week I watched as scientist and media reviewed those bundles of humanity, some barely identifiable except for the arms and legs protruding at obscene angles from man's great work, continuing to be still-born three generations after the atrocities of the Vietnam war officially stopped.

I considered the commentary that there has not been enough money spent in the last 30 years by government to lay blame at the feet of those responsible for generations of incalculable damage to the whole of the human race.

It is no doubt a direct result of endocrine disruptors, such as the defoliant Agent Orange, PCBs and TCE.

What those in power do not want researched is: who will we blame?

I reflect on how it is now public knowledge that England's scientist expected "A" bomb radiation to damage generations of humanity.

This was known and was further researched in the not-so-secret test on our own soldiers.

The expectation that an enormous number of babies would be born with internal organs outside their skin and incomplete spines was considered an acceptable by-product of waging a successful war.

Our governments on a global scale continue today to sweep these generational human concerns under the same government carpet.

Gosford City Council has presided over other disasters with our water supply.

I dont trust them.

Edward James Umina Beach