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According to the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, dioxin levels " greater than normal " but " below the thresholds of toxicity " were recorded the day of the Lubrizol factory fire 15 km from Rouen.
According to the results of the organization Atmo Normandy quoted by radio France Info, dioxin levels four times higher than normal were recorded in the town of Préaux ( north-east of Rouen ). " We will see if these figures are found on several samples in the long term since it is a levy at the time of the fire, " said Agnès Buzyn, the Minister of Health, France Info.
" Below the accepted thresholds of toxicity "
" It's more important than normal, but it's still (...) below the thresholds for toxicity, " said Buzyn. " We are going to Rouen with (the Minister of Agriculture) Didier Guillaume and (the Minister of the Ecological Transition) Élisabeth Borne at the end of the week, so as to install the monitoring committee (...) where the totality of results we have will be made public and clearly explained, "Buzyn continued.
According to her, " there will be (...) a complete picture of the situation at this point with the monitoring committee, which includes elected representatives, citizens, experts, non-governmental associations ". Health agencies are now in charge of " assessing the health risk for the populations " on the basis of " all the levies we will have, " explained the minister.
Establish a " risk map "
" Depending on this risk assessment, there will be population monitoring or not, it is the health agencies, on the basis of all results, to explain to me if there are additional things to do for the Rouen population or under the plume, "she said. " The agencies work on all samples to evaluate sampling by sampling, toxic by toxic (and) whether they are breathed in, ingested or not " to establish a " risk map ," said Ms. Buzyn.
On Thursday, 26 September, a huge fire destroyed 5,253 tonnes of chemicals at Lubrizol, a Seveso high-threshold chemicals company. The fire also affected three warehouses of its neighbor Normandie Logistique which stored more than 9,000 tons of products on its site.
( with AFP )
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