Weinan newspaper (Reporter solution Zhenguo Chao) since last winter, Chengcheng County Yao Temple Town Village alley died of cancer eight or nine people, including four or five people are lung cancer. The villagers speculated that cancer may be related to a nearby processing plant related to plastic particles. Chengcheng County Environmental Protection Bureau said the plant no environmental impact assessment procedures, has been halted, but the villagers are therefore carcinogenic need comprehensive judgment.
Villagers: old son died of cancer because cancer
May 21 at noon, in a Yao village two groups lived more than 30 villagers alley, a family is funeral. Even Aunt villagers said the old man died because of cancer, and the son of the deceased more than 50 years old, also had cancer, chemotherapy is still in Xi'an. "After last winter, the village people have died because of cancer eight or nine, including three under 60 years old." Even the aunt said, there are four or five people who died of lung cancer are.
"It was cancer that alley inside more, the rest of the alley there are not." Next to a villager took over the incumbent, while a series of cancer death phenomenon has caused villagers panic. The villagers have speculated that the cancer may be because the village inside the abandoned school building that plant pollution caused by plastic particles.
"The villagers in the alley next to the factory in. Yard of a production, the taste is very unpleasant." One villager said.
Environmental protection departments: the plant without any formalities
Reporter then went to the villagers as a source of cancer-causing particles of plastics processing plants. The plant about one kilometer from the village, there is no sign, the door is hanging head south Yao Village Elementary School sign. Factory did not produce, but which filled the bags,costo scarpe hogan hogan rebel bambino, snakeskin and other waste plastic. Only one old factory janitor, is not even a mother plant boss. Said the old man, his son is not, the factory has been discontinued three or four days. The elderly do not want to provide his son's phone.
In Chengcheng County Environmental Protection Bureau, said Liu Jun, director of the Bureau Emergency Office, EPA received after April 10 villagers have reported the plant were examined. At that time there is no factory production reactor with about 30 tons of waste plastic.
"The plant built in 2011, but no environmental impact assessment and any other formalities. Annual production of 100 tons of plastic particles." Liu said environmental protection departments have been ordered to shut down the plant by the oversight committee cleared materials. For questions reflect the factory as well as raw materials reporters present, Liu said the plant will be issued under demolition notice; if not execution, will be on the town government issued a notice Temple, dismantle the plant.
Liu said the factory produced plastic particles are due to cause cancer, need health, disease prevention, environmental protection and other multi-sectoral water quality, air testing after a comprehensive judgment, after all, a lot of pollution in rural areas, such as fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural films. Therefore, it can not under the plastic factory production conclusion cause cancer.
CDC: the need for air-water quality sampling
Chengcheng County Administrative Office Wu Junan CDC says cancer is not included in the scope of monitoring of chronic non-communicable diseases, cancer, and therefore have not heard Yao Village centralized outbreak thing. However, he said, plastic granules factory established only two years time, if you really have the pollution, leading to the possibility of such a short time "Cancer concentrated outbreak" is unlikely.
So how do you think Yao Village, a sudden increase in cancer patients? Wu Junan said, in recent years, a high incidence of cancer appears, younger, etc. characteristics, environmental pollution is an important reason. But specific to the case, the need for air, soil and water samples to draw conclusions. In addition, in recent years the country over the age of 65 free medical examination every year, a lot of people did not know previously identified diseases, which also feels a sudden outbreak of a disease.
(Original title: more than 30 households alley six months eighty-nine who died of cancer)