[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: Resident calls for more blood testing at Pease (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Resident calls for more blood testing at Pease

By Jeff McMenemy
Seacoastonline (NH)
September 13. 2015 

PORTSMOUTH – The local woman who spearheaded the successful effort to open blood testing for anyone exposed to contaminated city water at Pease International Tradeport now wants a study done on people not exposed to the contaminants.

“I think we need a better local control group to compare to the Pease population of adults and children,” Andrea Amico said this week after state officials told a group of about 200 parents and city officials that levels of the contaminants in children’s’ blood was significantly higher than a group of Texas children who weren’t exposed to the contaminants.

Amico believes the comparison would be more relevant if the blood test results were compared to a current study of children and adults from the Portsmouth area who weren’t exposed to what the Environmental Protection Agency are calling “contaminants of emerging concern.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fosters.com/article/20150913/NEWS/150919763

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