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Priority of the agency now. I have one more question. You recently stated that the sole basis for recommendation to the ban of most widely used chemicals was cumulative Risk Assessment which found the majority of Citizens Advisory Panel recommendation which found the majority of risk associated with chemicals was from another chemical, dehp. Can you explain concerns for using cumulative Risk Assessment as a basis for such regulatory determination . Thank you. The chap and the proposed rule is of great concern to me has been of concern to me since the chap issued its report because i believe the chap report should have been a public should have been subject to public peer review at that point. From that point onto me the system and whole process has been flawed. The cumulative Risk Assessment youre talking about is one of my concerns in that the process thats used, thats not well accepted in the Scientific Community, cumulative Risk Assessment, so i think that goes to the process and va
To you that with this in mind what actions have you taken in the past year to provide relief to companies with respect to costs of Third Party Testing requirements . Thank you congresswoman. One of the areas we found interesting, and this was discovered by Small Business ombudsman, i dont want to get the commissioner upset since it involves his prior occupation, but we found a lot of Third Party Labs are testing for services that are not required and so our Small Business ombudsman and his Office Provide phenomenal support and assistance working with Small Businesses and i encourage any members with Small Businesses that have issues, reach out to neil cohen of cpsc because he can work with companies to go through testing reports and find out whether or not they really need certain testing. He doesnt actually go line by line, but he says here are general guidances and questions you should be asking. He really does a phenomenal job of empowering a lot of companies. Thats gone a huge way
Investment policy. And one of the reports found that we researched found that the Stanford Institute for grand jury report that you can stick on the projector. Our clerk will do it. Go ahead. What the Stanford Institute compared was the calpers return to hypothetical low risk portfolio pursued over the same 25 year time period, a negligible the new york times, in 2012 found that Pension Funds investing in more alternative investments, not only have the highest risk levels, but contrary to expectations had poor returns than those that remained in traditional low risk investments. They further found that funds that did well with low risk Investment Policies nevertheless tended to switch to high risk model. And the reason for that is the Upjohn Institute in 2011 report titled an analysis of risktaking behavior for public Pension Plans of over 100 funds found pressure on Fund Managers to change from their conservative investment policy to assume more risk, even if a fund made a higher retu
Our clerk will do it. Go ahead. What the Stanford Institute compared was the calpers return to hypothetical low risk portfolio pursued over the same 25 year time period, a negligible the new york times, in 2012 found that Pension Funds investing in more alternative investments, not only have the highest risk levels, but contrary to expectations had poor returns than those that remained in traditional low risk investments. They further found that funds that did well with low risk Investment Policies nevertheless tended to switch to high risk model. And the reason for that is the Upjohn Institute in 2011 report titled an analysis of risktaking behavior for public Pension Plans of over 100 funds found pressure on Fund Managers to change from their conservative investment policy to assume more risk, even if a fund made a higher return with a low risk portfolio. Economists referred to this trend as the herd mentality. The jury can verify to the board of supervisors that studies do exist are