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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Probe finds health risks missed

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Probe finds health risks missed
ASSOCIATED PRESS By RITA BEAMISH – 11 March 09 The federal agency charged with protecting the public near toxic pollution sites often obscures or overlooks potential health hazards, uses inadequate analysis and fails to zero in on toxic culprits, congressional investigators and scientists say.A House investigative report says officials from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry “deny, delay, minimize, trivialize or ignore legitimate health concerns.”………………..

…………..Randall Parrish, a researcher at the University of Leicester, England, found depleted uranium exposure in 20 percent of residents he tested in Colonie, N.Y., where a company once produced uranium weapons for the military. He recommended that ATSDR revisit the area because its earlier health study, without benefit of his test method, assumed it couldn’t detect past exposure or tie it to illness years after the plant closed.

The Associated Press: INSIDE WASHINGTON: Probe finds health risks missed

March 12, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized