n 2001, the International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian organization that manages shared waterways and monitors pollution, requested a report that would look at the potential human health impact of environmental contamination in 26 "Areas of Concern" across the Great Lakes.
The Centers for Disease Control's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry began work on the study in 2002. The report concentrated on 11 pollutants known to damage human health and was intended to serve as a guide for further epidemiological study.
The committee charges that the report, "Public Health Implications of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great Lakes Areas of Concern," had been peer-reviewed and was ready for release in July 2007 when the CDC abruptly canceled its publication.More . . .
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While they are probing, I hope that they look into the dropping of toxaphene from fish consumption guidelines by Ontario and all the Great Lakes states. Toxaphene , the pesticise that repalced DDT, was banned in 1982, but its concentration in Lake Superior increased 50% by 1992 and has remained high.
Lake superior's large lake trout have 10 times the toxaphene that would cause dirt to be classified as hazardous waste and we are not warned of this toxicity.
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