(ANSA) – BARI, 21 JAN – “The impact of the” ex Ilva plants, from 2010 to 2015, on the environment and the health of citizens “has been considerable but not entirely characterized. While direct emissions into the air are relatively well monitored, less is known about other routes of exposure, such as soil and water pollution. The emissions into the air of the ex Ilva plant, compared to the concentration of Pm 2.5, are the cause of excess mortality and other negative impacts on health which also have economic costs “. This was established by the “Health impact assessment report for the production scenarios of the Taranto steel plant”, conducted by the WHO, World Health Organization, and commissioned by the Puglia Region. The study was presented online this morning by Francesca Racioppi, director of the European Center for the Environment and Health of the World Health Organization, and by Marco Martuzzi, current director of the Environment Department of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and former WHO executive. . The study began in 2019. “The estimates in this report are fully in line with the assessments of the Puglia Region,” it was said.
Racioppi stressed that “it has not been possible to accurately estimate the less serious health impacts, compared to mortality, affecting children”. (HANDLE).
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