From: Ian blenkharn@ianblenkharn.com
Category: News & information
Date: 29 Jul 2008
Time: 14:06:18 +0200
Remote Name: 86.133.234.230
"Doctors' Associations representing over 33,000 physicians have criticised on health grounds a set of proposed reforms to EU waste management laws, due to be voted on next week in the European Parliament.
"They are concerned about evidence that people who live near incinerators are more likely to develop chronic illnesses including a range of cancers.
"Illness around incinerators is suspected to be due partly to ultrafine particle emissions. Although they are connected with heart disease, stroke and cancer, ultrafine particle emissions from incinerators are not even measured.
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