Cancer status of lead upgraded, Council wants Belledune health studies re-opened
Posted by tracy on November 20th, 2008
The Conservation Council wants the health department to re-open the health file in Belledune because the various health studies and risk assessments done in the area ignored the cancer-causing effects of lead. Milewski said it might be understandable why the 2005 Belledune Area Health study did not look at the cancer risk of lead. At the time, inorganic lead was classified as a possible carcinogen. But she wants to know why the 2008 Xstrata soil study didn’t examine the cancer effects of lead. “The re-classification took place in the fall of 2007 and the Xstrata study wasn’t released until June 2008″, said Milewski.
