Toxic Neighbors?: Fetal Death Risk Near Hazardous Waste Sites

Symptom prevalence and odor-worry interaction near hazardous waste sites.

Retrospective symptom prevalence data, collected from over 2000 adult respondents living near three different hazardous waste sites, were analyzed with respect to both self-reported "environmental worry" and frequency of perceiving environmental (particularly petrochemical) odors. Significant positive relationships were observed between the prevalence of several symptoms (headache, nausea, eye ...

Risk of congenital anomalies near hazardous-waste landfill sites in Europe: the EUROHAZCON study.

BACKGROUND Waste-disposal sites are a potential hazard to health. This study is a multicentre case-control study of the risk of congenital anomalies associated with residence near hazardous-waste landfill sites in Europe. METHODS We used data from seven regional registers of congenital anomalies in five countries. We studied 1089 livebirths, stillbirths, and terminations of pregnancy with non...

Risk Assessment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls at Hazardous Waste Sites

We recently reported a hazardous waste site in which polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were at such high concentrations in soil that significant levels were found in indoor residential air. This paper uses the waste site to illustrate the complexities in exposure assessment and toxicity assessment of PCBs. Aroclors are commercial mixtures of different arrays of the 209 individual PCB congeners. ...

Allocating cleanup costs at hazardous waste sites.

Hazardous waste landfill sites and congenital anomalies.

he EUROHAZCON collaborative group reported a further stage of their research on connections between congenital anomalies and hazardous waste landfill sites in the November 2002 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 1 An expert panel scoring method has been used to estimate the hazard potential of EUROHAZCON landfill sites and to investigate whether sites classified as posing a great...