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Article: General Population Unlikely to Suffer Health Effects From 9/11 Air Exposures, Risk Analysis Study Says.
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- December 10, 2007
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MCLEAN, Va. -- "Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11, and a few days afterward, the ambient (air concentration) data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short-term or long-term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures," scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will report in the journal Risk Analysis.
"Assessment of Inhalation Exposures and Potential Health Risks to the General Population that Resulted from the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers" appears in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2007), which will be released Dec. 11, 2007. ...