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Clarification of the previous post on “The French Chernobyl” « Chemistry for a sustainable world

By chemrat 283 days ago from http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com

This clarifies some possible confusions caused by the previous, rather terse post (which has also since been revised based on reader feedback).

The term "French Chernobyl" was coined by the World Wildlife Fund to indicate the magnitude of the PCB pollution problem in France's Rhone river, but, of course, no problem like t

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The French Chernobyl ? « Chemistry for a sustainable world

By chemrat 284 days ago from http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com

News about years of PCB pollution associated with French chemical plants and the recently discovered PCB levels in fish from the Rhone river. The levels of toxic PCB's in fish are ten-fold higher than what is considered safe. This has been called "the French Chernobyl" by the World Wildlife fund. PCBs are toxic components

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