Smelter Funded Study that Found Nearby Residents Are Not at Greater Risk From Arsenic
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The study, funded by Glencore Canada, which concludes that eating rice or seafood exposes residents of Rouyn-Noranda to arsenic more than emissions from the Horne Foundry, has major flaws, according to a professor at INRS and a doctor who has been interested in the foundry for several years.
Smelter funded study that found nearby residents are not at greater risk from arsenic
MONTRÉAL - The owners of the Horne Smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Que. paid for a study that found that residents living near the facility are at no higher risk of arsenic exposure than other Canadians.
The study is in contradiction with the work of the Directorate of Public Health on the health of the Rouynorandians.
According to the study, exposure to arsenic is multifactorial and feeding is the main factor.
Consumption of fish, seafood and rice would expose the inhabitants of Rouyn-Noranda to arsenic more than emissions from the Horne Foundry.
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