Monday, December 7, 2009

4 questions toxicologist Jean-Fran? Ois Narbonne

What inspires you study?
It is a very good study, the largest ever conducted, we asked for years, but we were told there was no money. It took the cancer plan in order to initiate this study. Twenty years ago, when asked filters on the incinerator, said the medical profession? Move along, there's nothing to see! ?

In this study, cancer risk is real but not high
Overall, the risk of cancer is limited to about 10% more, but it affects mostly people overexposed. Now all the people who live under the plume of smoke from an incinerator are not overexposed. It should look closely at this population of people overexposed: among them, cancer risk is probably increased by 2 or 3.

The contamination of this population is mostly overexposed through food?
Yes, it is food produced locally is seen as fruits and vegetables did not enter? Ence little risk, meat either, because pigs are slaughtered young enough and in addition they will no pa? be in the fields, they get processed foods that are not contaminated. However, what is often involved, which comes from cattle, including dairy and fishery products in Zone C? Tethering.

What risks posed by existing incinerators?
The incinerators have started not to pollute are those who obeyed the standard 91, that is to say, the European standard of 1989 resulted in the 1991 French law? Ais. But it has been until 1994 the old incinerators to comply. And 2003 was expected to close the last polluting incinerator. Today, the worst is over. The factories are equipped with filters that make them much cleaner than incinerators operating in the 1980s. The risk is low and there is no medical reason to refuse incinerators. That does not mean you should expect to see no more cancer. But they are due to exposure back to previous decades.

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