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Article: U.S.: OFFICIALS ALLOW DIOXIN TO POISON HISTORICALLY BLACK TOWN
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- July 26, 2007
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Adrianne Appel
Inter Press Service English News Wire
07-26-2007
BOSTON, Jul. 25, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A U.S. health agency appears
to have been using residents from a small town in Louisiana as test
subjects against their will: It has repeatedly monitored dangerous
levels of dioxin in their blood without sounding any alarms.
Residents of Mossville, La., say the U.S. Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry did nothing to get their community
out of harm's way, despite knowing about the risks of dioxin. In
addition, the agency failed to release important test results for
five years and made it generally difficult for the community to
obtain its actual data.
Mossville residents traveled to ...
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