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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, charged with performing specific functions concerning the effect on public health of hazardous substances in the environment. These functions include public health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries, emergency responses to release of hazardous substances, applied research in support of public health assessments, information development and dissemination, and education and training concerning hazardous substances. ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Neighbors and politicians lambasted the study as inadequate and the ATSDR hired the Eastern Research Group in Massachusetts to conduct an independent public health study. There is some sort of genetic susceptibility, but that doesn't explain why people get the disease, so it's hypothesized that there is some environmental trigger, but we are not sure what that environmental trigger is," says Dhelia Williamson, an epidemiologist and coordinator for the study at ATSDR, a subagency of the US Department of Health and Human Services. On that front, there is plenty of cause for concern: Although their exposure levels were likely much higher than in Minneapolis, a recent ATSDR mortality review of Libby residents found that for a 20-year period, deaths from asbestosis were about 60 times higher than in the rest of the U. |
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