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Article: DeFazio calls for better air quality on airliners.(Health)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2004
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Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard
Ever wonder if it's the air inside an airplane that gives you that post-flight headache or nasty cold?
Don't ask the Federal Aviation Administration because it isn't paying much attention to air quality, according to a General Accounting Office survey done at the request of Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.
"It would be hard to find an airline passenger who has never come down with a cold or a sore throat and runny nose after flying," DeFazio said Monday. "Yet the FAA has largely ignored the effects of cabin air quality on the flying public."
DeFazio, the ranking Democrat on the House Aviation ...