'I certainly wouldn't be comfortable living there,' said one organic chemist.
"The level at which the EPA will initiate cleanup action in residential areas is 1,000 ppt," the newspaper explained."However, the cleanup triggers are much lower in many states—90 ppt in Michigan, and 50 ppt in California... Moreover,
in 2010 put the cancer risk threshold for dioxins in residential soil at 3.7 ppt, and the agency recommended lowering the cleanup trigger to 72 ppt." The Obama administration tanked the EPA scientists' effort to formally lower the federal cleanup threshold,Chemical experts and former EPA officials expressed alarm over the data while acknowledging it was limited to just two soil samples and more testing is needed.
"The levels are not screaming high, but we have confirmed that dioxins are in East Palestine's soil," Linda Birnbaum, former head of the U.S. National Toxicology Program, toldCarsten Prasse, an organic chemist at Johns Hopkins University, added that the dioxin concentrations in the soil samples examined are"actually concerning."
"My main concern is: is this reflective of the level in the area in East Palestine... and of the levels individuals who live near the rail are exposed to?" Prasse asked."I certainly wouldn't be comfortable living there."that the dioxin levels detected in the Indiana report are"very low."
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