[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: ATSDR rescinds Camp Lejeune (NC) findings

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US can't vouch for cancer assurances to Marines

By RITA BEAMISH
Associated Press
April 28, 2009

In an about-face, the government Tuesday disavowed a 12-year-old federal 
report that found little or no cancer risk for adults who lived on a 
Marine base where drinking water was contaminated for three decades.

Up to 1 million people could have been exposed to toxins that seeped 
from a neighboring dry cleaner and industrial activity at Camp Lejeune, 
N.C., federal officials say. Now, a report that minimized the cancer 
threat for adults has been discredited.

"We can no longer stand behind the accuracy of the information in that 
document," William Cibulas, director of health assessment for the Agency 
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, said at a meeting in Atlanta. 
"We know too much now."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gi6vC0bTdsy2zafKiX4WfKrQO0JQD97ROOT00

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Lenny Siegel
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