[CPEO-BIF] Former poultry vaccine manufacturer, Millsboro, Deleware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Multimillion-dollar settlement ordered for former poultry vaccine  
manufacturer
Former vaccine plant near Millsboro to pay for groundwater  
contamination clean-up

By Maddy Lauria
Cape Gazette (MD)
April 20, 2015


Millsboro - A nearly $3 million settlement - the largest in the  
history of Delaware's Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act program - will  
reimburse costs incurred by a state agency after cleaning up a  
contaminated site near Millsboro.

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary  
David Small ordered Mallinckrodt Veterinary to reimburse DNREC for  
more than $2.75 million, to clean up the former poultry vaccine  
manufacturing plant.

The manufacturing processes used tricholoroethylene, or TCE, from  
1952 to August 1999, according to a DNREC press release. TCE can  
result in both short-term and long-term ailments, including damage to  
the human central nervous system and organs including the liver,  
kidney, immune system and endocrine system. Recent analysis has found  
TCE exposure can be associated with several cancers in humans,  
specifically kidney, liver, cervix and lymphatic system cancers,  
according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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For the entire article, see
http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/multimillion-dollar-settlement- 
ordered-for-former-poultry-vaccine-manufacturer/1335448

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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