Chemical Reaction May Not Change Industry

Published December 20, 2006

Call it the Clean Hair Act.

The Conservatives' latest move on the environmental front consists of a massive effort to screen and review hundreds of suspect chemicals, which were put onto the market prior to the mid-1980s.

Scientific testing of human hair, blood, and breast-milk shows that Canadians are walking chemistry labs.

Remarkably, many of the chemicals used in everyday...