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> Subject: Incinerator => dioxin in New Zealand
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http://www.howlingatthemoon.com/poisoning_of_new_zealand%20OCT2000.htm
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> THE POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND
>
> THE 'ERIN BROKOVICH'-STYLE SCANDAL IN NEW ZEALAND'S
> BACKYARD
>
> Outbreaks of rare diseases and tumours are appearing
> in clusters around New Zealand, close to chemical
> factories. Why doesn't the Government want to
> investigate? SIMON JONES discovers what the
> authorities don't want you to know:
>
> Walk down any street in New Plymouth and you will
> probably hear a mixture of coughing and spluttering.
> Look inside any school and there appears to be more
> special needs children than is the norm for a city
> the size of New Plymouth. It's often been said that
> everyone knows someone with a serious disease,
> whether it be cancer or multiple sclerosis.
>
> Bad luck? Possibly, but for the last 15 years a
> group of residents have turned scientists to uncover
> what they say is a national health scandal - and one
> which, despite the government and media's persistent
> attempts to ignore, won't go away.
>
> They may sound like conspiracy theorists in
> overdrive - and there is little in the way of
> official evidence and health statistics to back up
> what they say. But here is the frightening thing:
> If, in this real-life game of Fact or Fiction?, only
> 10 percent of what the residents say is true, we
> have a huge health scandal on our hands - the
> magnitude and implications of which are
> unimaginable.
>
> The story centres around one of the city's major
> employers, the Ivon Watkins Dow Plant.
>
> Since the early 1960s, and up until 1987, it
> manufactured the 2,4,5T herbicide - which contains
> the deadly dioxin also used to form Agent Orange - a
> weapon of huge destruction in the Vietnam War.
>
> In New Zealand and around the world 2,4,5T is used
> to kill scrub, gorse and blackberry. In Vietnam,
> with concentrations of dioxin much higher, it had
> the same effect - to the extent where it devastated
> the country's crops and caused major health problems
> amongst veterans, including cancer, multiple
> sclerosis, while creating learning difficulties
> amongst the vets' children.
>
> Is it just coincidence that many in New Plymouth -
> and in areas around New Zealand, where this
> herbicide was extensively sprayed, complain about
> the same health problems?
>
> For years governments, both here and overseas,
> turned a blind eye to the damaging effects of
> dioxin, refusing to admit that there was any link
> between Agent Orange and health problems suffered by
> vets.
>
> Yet recently, in a draft report leaked to the
> Washington Post, the US government upgraded dioxin
> to a 'human carcinogen' - in other words a substance
> which is a major cause of cancer, as well as birth
> defects and infertility.
>
> Only a pending lawsuit by New York restaurant
> owners, who claim the link to cancer will scare away
> customers, has blocked publication of the report.
>
> The US Environmental Protection Agency notes that
> emissions of dioxin have plummeted from peak levels
> in the 1970s, but still pose a significant threat to
> some who ingest it - mostly in food, especially food
> of animal origin.
>
> John Moller, the president of the Vietnam Veterans
> Association, says it is ironic that some of the
> 3,800 Kiwi vets who served during the war came home
> to find that they were still partly exposed to
> chemicals associated with Agent Orange either by
> living in New Plymouth or areas where the herbicide
> was sprayed.
>
> "The New Zealand government says that because of the
> few figures involved and the time span it is not
> worth running tests on veterans now.
>
> "That's rubbish because the government has given
> $200,000 to the nuclear test veterans association
> for research and legal fees. Their exposure happened
> before Vietnam and their figures are much smaller.
>
> "The government has buried its head in the sand for
> too long," he says. "For example, when an enquiry
> was finally instigated, they took samples from
> native forest but not the Pine forest where 2,4,5-T
> was heavily used.
>
> "The problem with dioxin exposure is that there is a
> 30-year envelope. The historical effects are only
> beginning to come through now."
>
> The US government invented 2,4,5T in 1941 to be used
> as a weapon of war against Japan. Later, with
> concentrations lower, it is intended to control
> unwanted vegetation, most of which is found in
> Taranaki, Northland and Gisborne.
>
> The manufacture of 2,4,5-T is said to have started
> in New Zealand around 1962 and by 1970 the number of
> birth defects in New Plymouth doubled and the number
> of cases nationwide started to rise.
>
> Because of international health concerns 2,4,5-T
> production was halted around the world - with the
> exception of one factory, the Ivon Watkins Dow Plant
> in New Plymouth which persevered until 1987. The
> plant is still in operation today but only produces
> pesticides.
>
> Levels of dioxin found in 2,4,5-T were reduced
> through the late 70s and 80s as Ivon Watkins
> responded to health concerns, yet residents say the
> effects of intense manufacture in the 1960s are
> etched on the faces and, more importantly, the
> glands and
> livers of local people now.
>
> Time for some statistics. The average level of
> dioxin in Agent Orange was around 198 parts per
> million. In New Plymouth, at the peak of production,
> the average level in the manufactured product was
> around 95 parts per million - around half that of
> Agent Orange. By 1987 the level of dioxin was down
> to 0.1 or 0.05ppm following heightened awareness
> about the potential health problems.
>
> Initially residents and workers were happy with
> health assurances from company bosses, particularly
> with the way waste was disposed through burning. But
> only recently have secret dumps been found around
> the city, dumps which residents say have infected
> soil and water.
>
> In 1986 the Ministry of Environment held an official
> inquiry into dioxin contamination after 300kg of
> vapour accidentally leaked from the plant. Yet,
> interestingly, company bosses admitted that over
> 250kg of vapour was normally discharged as a result
> of the normal process anyway.
>
> The enquiry team concluded that there was no
> evidence of major contamination in New Plymouth or
> of any major health risk Yet residents say that part
> of the information used in that research was based
> on American studies which have since found to be
> fraudulent. This is where the issue becomes more
> complicated. In 1949 an explosion at the Monsanto
> chemical plant in Nitro, West Virginia, exposed many
> workers to effects of 2,4,5-T. Thirty years later
> Monsanto scientists and an independent researcher,
> Dr Raymond Sunkind, compared death rates amongst
> workers exposed to 2,4,5-T to those who hadn't been
> exposed. When no differences between the two groups
> were found, Monsanto claimed that dioxin did not
> cause cancer. Evidence of inaccuracies were only
> exposed in the late 1980s when a group of Missouri
> citizens sued Monsanto for alleged injuries suffered
> during a chemical spill caused by a train derailment
> in 1979. While reviewing documents obtained from
> Monsanto, it was held in court that during the early
> studies, scientists omitted five deaths from the
> dioxin-exposed and put them in the unexposed group.
> Given that, and the leaked report to the Washington
> Post, it's small wonder that the residents are now
> calling for a new inquiry.
>
> It's easy in stories like this to get bogged down
> with statistics and hearsay. But it's only when
> confronted with the truth about health problems in
> New Plymouth that people start listening.
>
>
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