2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:26:36 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: ATSDR rescinds Camp Lejeune (NC) findings
 
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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