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Nov 19, 2024 at 4:32 p.m.
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Chance is perhaps not the only one responsible. In ten years, six breast cancers and three pancreatic cancers were identified among teachers and staff members of the Romain-Rolland high school in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne). The Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) has opened an investigation to shed light on this worrying concentration of diseases, reports The Parisian.
A concentration of dioxins near the incinerator
In November 2023, the Snes-FSU 94 union launched an alert message on its website after sending letters to the rectorate to “know the stages of the process underway”. “The staff of the Romain-Rolland high school are worried about their health“, reported the staff representatives.
Since January this year, they had been informed that the prevention services rectorate carried out expertise which they had to share with the ARS of the region. However, they were not kept informed of the progress of this research, “feeling particularly concerned by the situation”, specified the union.
Last year, The World revealed a study carried out by the ToxicoWatch foundation, a Dutch NGO made up of researchers. This pointed to a significant concentration of dioxins – molecules as persistent as they are toxic – around the Ivry-Paris XIII incinerator. The analyzes were “carried out on eggs from free-range chickens, trees (softwood, olive trees) and moss in the municipalities of Ivry-sur-Seine, Alfortville, Charenton-le-Pont and Paris”, the cities close to the installation managed by the metropolitan household waste agency (Syctom).
On October 22, 2024, the Dutch researchers also returned to the site as part of from a new study around the largest incinerator in Europe. The ARS Ile-de-France, for its part, is still carrying out its investigations to “evaluate the potential causes of these pathologies”.
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