If the US chemical safety board is being stacked with industry insiders, can we trust safety assessments?

Posted by retired_coldplunge in Safety & Side Effects - 1 points, 0 comments.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/trump-chemical-safety-board

The Guardian just published a piece about Trump appointing industry-aligned people to the key federal chemical safety advisory board. Former EPA scientists are saying the board will basically rubber-stamp whatever industry wants, and that research supporting industry positions will get prioritized over independent science.

This kind of hits different when you are already in a space where "research compound" means almost nobody has properly studied the long-term effects on humans in the first place. We are already operating with thin safety data on a lot of these peptides, eh. If the regulatory bodies that are supposed to be catching problems are compromised, it just makes me trust the whole system even less. Fwiw, I have always taken the stance that you have to do your own homework, get bloodwork, and start low. This article makes me feel like that approach is even more necessary.

Does anyone here actually rely on US regulatory safety data when deciding what to run, or do you mostly go by community experience and whatever published studies you can find on your own? 📰

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