[CPEO-BIF] Radio Materials Corporation settlement, Attica, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kraft Foods to pay $8.1m in pollution lawsuit

By Caroline Scott-Thomas
Food Navigator
May 23, 2011

Kraft Foods has said it will pay $8.1m to settle a class action  
lawsuit over air and groundwater pollution from an Attica, Indiana  
facility, which was caused by the site’s former owner.

In a 2009 lawsuit, 130 Attica residents complained that chemicals  
known as TCE and PCE from Radio Materials Corporation (RMC), the  
previous owner of a nearby factory, had leached into groundwater, and  
the chemicals had then vaporized and seeped upward into their homes.

In 1999, RMC, which made ceramic capacitors for electronics, had  
entered into an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency  
(EPA) to investigate and rectify contamination caused by decades of  
chemical dumping into unlined pits. RMC went out of business in 2001  
and lacked the funds to complete this work, but Kraft Foods agreed to  
take on the investigation and remediation process when it took over  
the plant in 2002.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Legislation/Kraft-Foods-to-pay-8.1m- 
in-pollution-lawsuit

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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