Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"And bioaccumulation can be a very powerful and concentrating force if the ultimate animal to which the human is exposed is at the top of the food chain."

"What is going to happen to this process so that an evaluation moment by somebody in Government takes place before a chemical gets dispersed into the environment with the nominal word approved attached..."

"I can't think of another circumstance in which a regulatory agency approved something for use without actually coming to a formal decision that it is safe to be used and without any process other than..."

"But what a lay person would consider to be an approval, that this particular chemical is safe for use in these circumstances, never anywhere in this process that I can see actually gets done."