[CPEO-BIF] Bronx, New York "parents in dark about school toxins"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DOE delays leave parents in dark about school toxins

By Nikki Dowling
Riverdale Press (NY)
September 28, 2011

Ginette Sosa’s daughter used to get such severe headaches in the  
cafeteria of the Bronx New School, PS 51 that eventually she started  
refusing to go to lunch.

So Ms. Sosa was extremely alarmed when officials determined that PS  
51’s building, at 3200 Jerome Ave., contained levels of the toxic  
chemical trichloroethylene that exceeded state guidelines by up to 10  
times the legal limit, particularly in the air of the cafeteria and  
basement.

Now, she wants answers. And she is not alone. Families and staffers  
want to know how long they, or their children, were exposed to the  
chemical, what the potential health effects are and what they can do  
to prevent possible illness.

...

For the entire article, see
http://riverdalepress.com/stories/DOE-delays-leave-parents-in-dark- 
about-school-toxins-,49284

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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