<i>PFOA was only one of more than 60,000 synthetic chemicals that companies
produced and released into the world without regulatory oversight.
...
Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, the E.P.A. can test
chemicals only when it has been provided evidence of harm. This
arrangement, which largely allows chemical companies to regulate
themselves, is the reason that the E.P.A. has restricted only five
chemicals, out of tens of thousands on the market, in the last 40 years.</i><p>Staggering.  This is regulatory theater that makes 
the TSA version look like a pre-school play.