[CPEO-BIF] Cancer study at TCE sites in Camden County, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Participants needed for cancer study underway in Camden County

By AMY WILSON 
Lake News Online (MO)
June 14, 2018 
 
 
A cancer inquiry related to trichloroethylene contamination in Camdenton has now become a cancer study for Camden County. Participation in the study is being promoted to try to help get a better grasp of the possible impact on the people of this area.

Trichloroethylene was and is a commonly-used industrial solvent that is a “potential human health hazard for noncancer toxicity to the central nervous system, kidney, liver, immune system, male reproductive system, and the developing fetus,” according to a toxicological assessment of TCE published by the EPA in September 2011. It is ”‘carcinogenic to humans’ by all routes of exposure.”

Three Superfund sites, identified in the 1990s, exist in the City of Camdenton from past dumping by a former manufacturer. These sites are overseen by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and have been subject to renewed testing in recent years due to new concerns about the toxicity of TCE vapor intrusion in buildings in addition to previously known toxicity of TCE contamination of water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20180614/participants-needed-for-cancer-study-underway-in-camden-county

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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