Post by libby on Jan 24, 2016 0:41:13 GMT -6
Stewart Allison McFerran remembers growing up in North Muskegon four decades ago when out-of-state university researchers played a prominent role in examining the mass poisoning of Michigan’s food supply with polybrominated biphenyls, or PBBs.
The 1973 health crisis occurred when fire retardant containing PBBs was accidentally mixed with animal feed. As the disaster unfolded, researchers from New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai studied the health effects on hundreds of chemical workers and dairy farmers.
McFerran sees a parallel in the Flint water crisis: the most prominent researcher involved is Marc Edwards, a professor from Virginia Tech, a school hundreds of miles from Michigan.
Edwards tested a Flint family’s water last spring, discovered high lead levels and conducted further testing that showed widespread contamination. That prompted research that showed lead in the blood of Flint children and led the city to change its water source from the Flint River back to Lake Huron.
See more: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/23/mich-universities-move-research-flint-water-crisis/79244972/
The 1973 health crisis occurred when fire retardant containing PBBs was accidentally mixed with animal feed. As the disaster unfolded, researchers from New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai studied the health effects on hundreds of chemical workers and dairy farmers.
McFerran sees a parallel in the Flint water crisis: the most prominent researcher involved is Marc Edwards, a professor from Virginia Tech, a school hundreds of miles from Michigan.
Edwards tested a Flint family’s water last spring, discovered high lead levels and conducted further testing that showed widespread contamination. That prompted research that showed lead in the blood of Flint children and led the city to change its water source from the Flint River back to Lake Huron.
See more: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/23/mich-universities-move-research-flint-water-crisis/79244972/