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* ’ ■, • * tt % 1 ft • Toxic definitions ■ BENZENE: A colorless liquid with sweet odor that evapo­ rates into the air quickly, benzene Is a highly flammable car­ o i cinogen. Breathing benzene can cause drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, headaches, rapid heart rate, vomiting. Infection or . tremors. Long-term exposure affects bone marrow and can cause anemia and leukemia. Breathing very high levels can cause death. ■ CHLOmNATED DIOXMS) A group of 75 chemically related compounds that are crystals or colorless solids; chlorinated . dioxins are odorless end earcinogenio. Health risks Include several kinds of cancer, liver damage and severe skin dis­ ease, such as lesions. A single exposure to some dioxins can kill animals. Chlorinated dioxins esn travel long distances In , the air. ■ CHROMlUMi Has no taste er odor; and at high levels this f J carcinogen can damage the nose and cause cancer, particularly In theTungs. Contact can cause skin ulcers. Ingesting large amounts can cause an upset stomach, convulsions, kidrwy and liver damage, even death. ! ■ COPPBRi Small Smoko still rises amounts are necessary ■ from tile ruins of for good health, but 1 World Trade Center. large amounts can cause dizziness, headaches, ' vomiting, diarrhea and liver and kidney damage. ■ UADI While lead oan be found In all parts of the environment expo sure can damage the nervous system, kidneys TESTING SITES AROUND GROUND ZERO and reproductive system. At high levels, lead oan since ths Sept 11 tenor attacks on the World hade Center, Envlronmontal Protection Agency monitoring devices decrease a person’s have found the following toxic substances — sometimes at levels far exceeding federal release standards — In reaction time and memo the air and soli In places shown on this map of the Ground Zero area; ry, and cause anemia, as

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w gers, wrists or ankles. Children are more vulner­ ae|»tl8 Lead 1.8 igr/ettMo meter Oag/eaMe Bister able to lead poisoning ' than adults. f B Sept. 23 Lead 43 uS/euUa meter . 13 ug/cuMo meter ■ PCBk Polychlorinated biphenyls, a mixture of ohemloals that have no smell or taste, Sept IB . PCB» 630-1210 parts per bnnen 180 parts per bnnen cause cancer In animals and are considered a likely human carcinogen. Health risks Include Uvat; stomach and thyroid HBi damage, and anemia. PCBs also can cause acne In adults, and Q Oota Banana 39 parts par Rdmon 1 part per mnuon behavioral and Immunological changes In children. They can travel long distances In the air. Q 0etl2 Benzene 21 pvto per mnnon 1 part per mnnon ■ 8UIPUB DIOXIDEi A colorless gas with a pungent smell; breathing high levels can cause severe airway obstructions, Em - Ewtemaantar mtaetlon ASBiw *itf-liRflSoRihof8gram sourer OSrM-aamailbffirSaft^andfMriAdaiMitralton Otar was tfie f^iBst (Sadn M Mr and bum the nose and throat kDM. Rasonai Oseania sntAmafntiioMiiManaii •*fig •> 1 tmnenth of a fiam oualyobsenedlnNai/^Haiborlvetalamarttan SOUnCE; ApBixp rw Tuitio Sutetaneas and disease RasWry

{to^the state monitoring agent ■ On numerous days, sulfur di- IMBWVWWTTmiFTHai cupatlonal exposure,* Bartlett workers.* a 10 conducted the test Because oxide readings in the air at a DANGEROUS JOB eaid. “They aren't treating this *when we are finding these S

ssasssss “PR*®®** ®* than the EPA’sambient air quail- Injuries at Ground ASTtk sz-ssssx's people being exposed or who is mariy within the work area,* I S I .h ty standards. High levels of sul- _________ WOES ______ possibly being affected by the re- said EPA spokeswoman Mary

ast thelS^of leadt^eair IS neatly three times the EPA cordlngtooneindustriallqFgien- Wb EPA’s whatever mo^torlng the EPA sol, an Industrial hygienist who has conducted has been made- works with the Environmental Wli { sessment’ *1 don’t know how,the govern- ? g indard. Exposure to lead can stand^ for a classification of quate. Law and Justice Project “No ment defines a Superfund site,* image.{he ^tral petrous sys- “hazardous............ “Their detection limits are one’s worrying about the combi- Bartlett said,, “But. rd. certainly S I ntTHdfi^ and'other organs, “What I’ve seen of the data is aimed at threshold levels for oc- nation of these things on the treat Ground Zero like one,*

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