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SB 144 like several bills now in play, seeks to protect big corporate players while potentially putting average Georgian's at risk.
Essentially the bill states that chemical companies are protected from liability by relying on the current warning label as approved by EPA under FIFRA:
"Any pesticide registered with the Commissioner, pursuant to Code Section 2-7-55, or the Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to FIFRA, which displays a label that has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in registering the pesticide or is consistent with the most recent human health risk assessment performed under FIFRA shall be deemed a sufficient warning label for the purposes of an action commenced under any provision of state law concerning the duty to warn or label, or any other common law duty to warn."
What if the chemical company finds risks to humans that are not yet reflected in the warning label?
What if the EPA misses something and the chemical(s) cause damage that EPA didn't advise about on the label.
The bill would shield chemical companies from lawsuits associated with the damage caused by their products so long as they could point to a warning label and say they were replying on the warning label.
Like the "Tort Reform" law SB 68 currently in discussion, the beneficiaries are the chemical companies and potentially the insurance companies that underwrite them.
This bill just makes i easier for them to go on selling chemicals even if they uncover new risks or diseases being caused by their goods.
Why is the Georgia legislature so carefully protecting the interests of corporations and insurance companies over the interests and welfare of average Georgian's? It's time to ask your representatives.
