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On the recordJuly 23, 2012
So one could hypothesize that if one were concerned about a competitive business motive for protecting this information, it would be within the realm of most major corporations to be able to afford the kind of testing that you did.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses corporate ability to afford testing for chemical safety.

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