[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Researcher discusses WWII contamination concerns in Unalaska [AK] subsistence foods"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Researcher discusses WWII contamination concerns in Unalaska subsistence foods

By Sofia Stuart-Rasi
KUCB Radio (Unalaska, AK)
October 28, 2025

Subsistence gathering is part of life in Unalaska, and so is living alongside remnants of World War II.

Community members collect berries and fish around Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS). According to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks study, more than 80% of the Unalaskans they surveyed are concerned about whether these sites could be contaminating their subsistence foods.

Scientists with the university are working to answer those questions by testing soil and subsistence foods for contaminants and surveying residents about how concerns over FUDS have changed their harvesting practices.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kucb.org/show/island-interviews/2025-10-28/researcher-discusses-wwii-contamination-concerns-in-unalaska-subsistence-foods

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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