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Pro Publica – Senior CDC Official (Dr. Howard Frumkin) Reassigned

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January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health

In 2008, ProPublica reported that Frumkin and others failed to take action after learning that ATSDR botched a study on the trailers provided to Katrina victims. The Federal Emergency Management Agency used the study to assure trailer occupants that the formaldehyde levels weren’t high enough to harm them. ATSDR never corrected FEMA, even though Christopher De Rosa, who led ATSDR’s toxicology and environmental medicine division, repeatedly warned Frumkin that the report didn’t take into account the long-term health consequences of exposure to formaldehyde, like cancer risks.   Read More

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