[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, COMMUNITY: Ft. Detrick RAB becomes cancer forum

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group's cancer concern changes meeting's focus


By Megan Eckstein
Frederick News Post (MD)
July 27, 2010

As members of the Fort Detrick Restoration Advisory Board look on, Randy 
White, standing at right, waves papers he said lists the names of 400 
people with cancer as he addresses Col. Judith Robinson, standing at 
left, commander of the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Detrick.

A group seeking answers regarding Fort Detrick's possible connection to 
cancer cases in Frederick "hijacked" a Restoration Advisory Board 
meeting, its chairwoman said, and forced officials to answer their 
health questions instead of the environmental issues on the agenda.
Board chairwoman Linda Robinson repeatedly asked that the Kristen Renee 
Foundation and its supporters hold their questions for the end of the 
meeting, which was intended to brief the board on a final report about 
how Fort Detrick should proceed in monitoring contamination levels at 
its Area B, off Montevue Lane.

Instead, the foundation and others threw out a steady stream of 
questions during the 21Ú2 hour meeting, eventually forcing Robinson to 
hand the meeting over to county health officer Barbara Brookmyer, who 
was better able to answer questions about cancer and how to investigate 
a cancer cluster.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=107821

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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
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