Chickens and dioxin food contamination
Exposed to the Attorney General's Office
FROM THE LAWN TIRRENO
And while the well-known story of the PCB and dioxin contamination, the ASL Pistoia collects from those who (a physician experienced and respected) for allegedly underestimated the problem and failed to issued the necessary orders prohibiting the consumption and marketing of foods, the ASL PRATO hides behind a painful silence, the National Environmental Forum, together with the committees and ordinary citizens, turns to the Attorney General's Office at the Court of Appeal of Florence and ask her to investigate whether the management of severe episode of food contamination are to be recognize offenses, in particular acts of omission and abuse of office, private interest in public acts by the bodies responsible for monitoring, and verification of offense in the contest of poisoning, given that dioxin is the most toxic chemicals ever, that persists environment for many years and comes to a man right through the food chain.
Nell'esposto also questioned the closure and seizure of two incineration plants (Montale and Baciacavallo) who continue to enter into the surrounding environment and therefore also in food, any amount of poisons that can not only increase the heavy contamination emerged own investigations made by the two ASL. Anyway whatever the real cause of the contamination, the fact is that the products are contaminated, so instead of promoting the short chain el'autoconsumo like the City of Prato is necessary instead to refrain from consuming these products.
Finally to protect the immediate health of the public asking that the same prosecutor to issue orders that ASL did not offer, and that the auditors have not signed up, seizure of food produced in the affected areas and the prohibition of consumption and marketing (see action taken by the City of Jersey) and that the losses suffered by producers should be compensated by the polluter.
Memo note that: The
Prato dioxin in chickens was found by chance, thanks (so to speak) for investigating the food of the ASL Pistoia, Prato, together with that of the has followed for the portion relating to territorial made to see if and how the incinerator Montale has polluted food: meat, eggs, milk, etc.,.
The investigations were made in response to the urgent requests of the committees and the population concerned about health, after repeated exceedances of emission limits (nearly 7 times) of dioxins from incinerator in Montale, a situation which lasted for months and the population exposed to massive doses of certain carcinogens.
From these surveys (though with great delay) has shown that dioxins are banned as well as in chicken, also in beef and chicken eggs, pork does not know anything just because has not been investigated.
The Institute Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Lazio and Tuscany, in the report that accompanied the data samples in animals, acknowledged that there is a contamination concern that a portion of the incinerator was caused Montale but also from other sources because one of the samples of chicken meat the most polluted 46.2 ng (against a legal limit of 4.0) comes from a farming area outside and away from relapse Montale. With this sample
administrators Pistoia, supported by local health authorities and ARPAT, tried to pay the incinerator Montale refuge in the argument of the pollution is heavy!, But ubiquitous, so not solely attributable to the incinerator.
Well did not realize that the sample of chicken with a high content of dioxin in Prato was far from the incinerator of Montale, but very close to that of Baciacavallo.
Baciacavallo The incinerator is not new to these surprises, which since 1999 has periodically make timely epidemiological investigations reveal a progressive increase in risk, statistically significant for lung cancer (the only suspect) with decreasing distance from the incinerator, the incinerator in the fallout there are more cancers than in areas farther away.
Although these data are known for over ten years, and are regularly re-confirmed by subsequent studies, it continues to cast a "smoke" in the eye and say that there is still to be studied and explored. During these years it was said that was not enough to have found the cancer (and its connection with the incinerator), because they also had to find the killer.
Now the killer is, are dioxins (including dioxin-like PCBs) found in excessive amounts (46.2 ng against a legal limit of 4.0) in samples of chicken meat and that in all likelihood are also found in milk, eggs, all our food and certainly in our meat and those of our children. We are a territory and a population infected.
Committees and the public has long expressed great concern not only for the serious damage to health but also for economic damages and image that local producers and food throughout the economy of the area will suffer.
They ask, too long from now, the ASL intervene to enforce the law, there is a specific legislative decree n ° 158 of 2006 implementing EU Directive 2003/74/EC, in particular Articles 22, 23 and 25 have specific obligations on the competent authorities for the supervision of food and for the safety of public health.