Injured Workers, Mold, ACOEM And Senator Edward Kennedy

by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day

Wed, Aug 26, 2009 2:23PM

At a press conference for injured movie and Kaiser workers at the Downey dump site mold expert Sharon Kramer reported on her efforts to expose the conflict of interest between the corporate doctor's trade group ACOEM and government agencies which are supposed to protect injured workers and the public. She discovered that ACOEM is an organization that promotes "junk" science and it's rules are written into the law in California with the deregulation of workers compensaton by Governor Schwartzenegger and the Democratic controlled legislature. She also reports on the role of Senator Edward Kennedy on deleting a government study on this conflict of interest.
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Injured Workers, Mold, ACOEM And Senator Edward Kennedy

http://blip.tv/file/2520407 11.56 minutes
Sharon Kramer, an expert on mold and ACOEM spoke at a press conference called by the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day for injured workers at the Downey toxic dump site. http://blip.tv/file/2483914
Kramer spoke on the conflict of interest between the trade group ACOEM and the need to defend people who are sickened by mold. She also reported on her efforts to get a Congressional investigation on this conflict of interest by ACOEM and the role of Senator Edward Kennedy on deleting this aspect in this important expose in a Congressional study.
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
P.O. Box 720027 San Francisco, CA 94172
http://www.workersmemorialday.org

American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (ACOEM):
A Professional Association in Service to Industry
http://www.moldwarriors.com/SK/IJOEH_Oct07_LaDou.pdf

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§Senator Edward Kennedy and the mold issue

by Sharon Kramer

Thu, Aug 27, 2009 4:56AM

Senator Edward Kennedy was a great man who championed the rights of workers. I will always be appreciative of his request for the Federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the science behind public and government policy behind the mold issue.

The audit report, "Indoor Mold: Better Coordination of Research on Health Effects and More Consistent Guidance Would Improve Federal Efforts" http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-980, was issued in September of 2008.

No longer is it absurd health policy that the poisons (toxins) of mold do not poison. Now, all science information coming from our Federal government over the issue will first run through the Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality (CIAQ) with accurate information then being dispersed to physicians.

This has helped much to curtail the misinformation that has been mass promoted to physicians and building stakeholders by ACOEM, the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform and the Manhattan Institute think-tank.

Unfortunately, one step more of calling the entities out for their conflicts of interest that has harmed so many workers and US citizens, would have quickly finished the job of dispelling the unscientific myth.

Let's hope Congress will see fit to finish this necessary step so that all mold injured Americans may receive proper medical treatment and fair treatment within the courts - in the very near future.

Although disappointed that Senator Kennedy did not see fit to investigate the conflicts of interest of ACOEM, the Chamber and the Manhattan Institute over the mold issue - that could have quickly shut down the deceit; the man will always have my heartfelt respect and appreciation for requesting the GAO audit that is slowly causing change for the better of the lives of many US citizens.

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