Love Canal - AP and Study

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Dear Radsafers:



Last week here there was "spirited" debate over whether or not there were any 

deleterious health ramifications to having lived at Love Canal in Niagara 

Falls, New York, and, that one study might not prove all.



Well, so much for the definitive health study of yore published and reviewed 

in Science...it looks like the jury might still be out on this one after all. 



Many thanks to my friends at NYSDOH for the timing of this release :*)



May Peace Prevail.

Sincerely,

Louis Ricciuti

Niagara Falls  Niagara County

"Los Alamos East"





NY Love Canal Health Study Due in Fall - Atlanta Journal Constitution -

 

8 hours ago



© 2004 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

N.Y. Love Canal Health Study Due in Fall BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)--Results of a 

study examining the health of former residents of the contaminated Love Canal are 

expected in the fall, two years later than expected, state health officials 

said Thursday. The scope of the study, involving about 6,000 people, has been 

expanded over time, Health Department spokesman Bill Van Slyke said. Results 

are expected in October. Researchers have been examining mortality and cancer 

rates, birth defects and miscarriage rates among former residents and their 

relatives since 1998. The Niagara Falls neighborhood was built on and around a 

canal that had for years been used as a chemical dump; by the 1960s and 1970s, 

contaminated groundwater was leaching into yards and school grounds. President 

Carter declared a federal emergency in 1978 and 1980, which led to 900 families 

being moved and the passage in 1980 of the Superfund law.