Grassroots coalition presses for stronger enforcement
Citizens for Sensible Safeguards recently issued a statement of principles urging the Bush administration to step up efforts to protect the public from highway, workplace, environmental and food-borne hazards.
Every year, more than 40,000 people die on U.S. highways, according to the advocacy group. Food-borne illnesses kill an estimated 7,000 people and sicken 76 million. Nearly 6,000 workers die as a result of injury on the job, with an additional 50,000 to 60,000 killed by occupational disease, according to the group. More than 30,000 lives are cut short by air pollution every year, and another 1.8 million get sick from swimming in sewage.