GEOG 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Seveso Disaster, Flixborough Disaster, Givaudan
8 Mar 2018
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Industrie chimiche meda societa azionaria: plant manufactured 2,4,5, tcp: used to produce herbicides and antiseptics, built in 1971, and owned by givaudan, no perceptions of having dangers from this plant. Slide 6: a warning: flixborough disaster: explosion at a chemical plant, due to poor supervision, and shortcuts in process. Shows that we are (cid:494)always behind the ball(cid:495) of these situations. D)ox)n: one of t(e world(cid:495)s most tox)c c(em)cal. January 25, 2018: 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo para dioxin (tcdd): highly toxic, persistent, environmental pollutant, always a bi-product (and seems like a contaminate) It attaches itself to the surface of the cell, and triggers a series of reactions leading to suppressed human system. Involved overtime with cancer, and leading overtime to the growth of tumors: health problems also caused, reproductive system, mimics hormones and interferes with that system, affects the female-to-male ratio in the population, development (teratogenic)
