Legislative proposals for reversing the cancer epidemic and controlling run-away industrial technologies

An interlocking legislative complex is proposed for the control of carcinog enic and other adverse impacts of established run-away petrochemical and ra dionuclear technologies, with particular reference to winning the losing wa r against cancer. These proposals are also applicable to the poorly recogni zed, potentially adverse public health and environmental hazards of emergin g technologies, particularly genetically engineered food production. The pr oposals embody fundamental democratic rights-the right to know and balanced and transparent decision making-the "Precautionary Principle," reduction i n the use of toxics, incentives for the development of safe industrial tech nologies, and criminal sanctions for suppression or manipulation of informa tion.