---

• n  a salt of perchloric acid

• Lockheed Martin funded the study after some 800 lawsuits charged that the company leaked perchlorate into the water supply and made people sick.
• Within minutes, the flames reached containers of highly combustible sodium perchlorate and other chemicals, and four explosions hurled fireballs and toxic black plumes skyward.
• Last week it was reported that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is sponsoring a study that pays volunteers $1,000 apiece to ingest perchlorate--a pollutant found in rocket fuel .

News & Articles

---

• Microvi and Aquatech Break Ground on Large Demonstration System at Aerojet Site in Rancho ...
  HAYWARD, Calif. -- Microvi Biotechnologies, in partnering with Aquatech International, has been awarded a contract for a demonstration system for degradation of perchlorate at Aerojet General Corporation's site near Rancho Cordova, California. The demonstration system, which was installed in April 2013, is designed to treat 175,000 gallons of groundwater per day containing perchlorate, a ...
  June 10, 2013 - ThomasNet

Quotes

---

• Barbara Boxer in Washington Post
  Perchlorate has been a serious, persistent and widespread problem which threatens the health of our families, especially our children,Boxer told thePost. "For the Bush EPA to walk away from this problem and shrug off this danger is, in my...
• Dianne Feinstein in FOXNews
  We've got to come to grips with the perchlorate situation quickly,Feinstein said in a statement. "And EPA has to move quickly to set a national drinking water standard that protects the health and safety of all Americans."