Risk of congenital anomalies near hazardous-waste landfill sites in Europe: the EUROHAZCON study

Dolk, Helen; Vrijheid, Martine; Armstrong, Ben; Abramsky, Lenore; Bianchi, Fabrizio; Garne, Ester; Nelen, Vera; Robert, Elisabeth; Scott, J. E.; Stone, David H.; Tenconi, Romano

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(98)01352-x

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“…The pressures for EJ in Europe are driven by the same forces as those that occurred in the USA: grass roots activism (e.g. Pennycook et al, 2001;FoE, 2001;Dunion, 2003); evidence of inequity (Dolk et al, 1998;Elliot et al, 2001, see also Table 1), and high level policy initiatives (e.g. UN ECE, 1999) although litigation has not been a significant factor.…”

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“…Cutter (1995) and Bowen (2002) review North American studies, all of which address associations between emissions from industrial facilities and landfills with attributes of nearby populations. Early European studies share this focus, also investigating toxic emissions and landfill sites (Dolk et al, 1998;FoE, 2000;FoE 2001;Elliot et al, 2001). In the UK however, several EJ air quality studies, in which transport emissions are a key factor, have also been conducted (see Table 1 and a review in Mitchell and Dorling, 2003).…”

Section: Environmental Equity and Transportmentioning

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Forecasting environmental equity: Air quality responses to road user charging in Leeds, UK

Mitchell

2005

Journal of Environmental Management

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Sustainable development requires that the goals of economic development, environmental protection and social justice are considered collectively when formulating development strategies. In the context of planning sustainable transport systems, trade-offs between the economy and the environment, and between the economy and social justice have received considerable attention. In contrast, much less attention has been paid to environmental equity,

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Section: Environmental Equity and Transportmentioning

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Forecasting environmental equity: Air quality responses to road user charging in Leeds, UK

Mitchell

2005

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Two epidemiological studies reported a possible relationship between exposure to pesticides and hypospadias. Kristensen reported a moderate increase in the odds ratio (OR) for hypospadias in individuals exposed to farm chemicals (OR = 1.51, 95% confidence interval, 1.00-2.26) [66], and Weidner [67,68] A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t sites has been associated with a high incidence of hypospadias [69,70]. Similarly, an increased rate of hypospadias was reported in boys from parents exposed to dioxin after the Seveso industrial accident [71].…”

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Hypospadias: Interactions between environment and genetics

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Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

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“…by constructing 1 km buffer zones) was not considered meaningful (Elliott et al, 2001a). The 2 km resolution used in this study was similar to or higher than that of previous studies (Dolk et al, 1998;Fielder et al, 2000) and at the likely limit of dispersion for landfill emissions to include both air and water pathways, and possible dispersion by birds or animals (WHO, 2000;Elliott et al, 2001a). These 2 km zones were then intersected with the ca.…”

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Cancer risks in populations living near landfill sites in Great Britain

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Previous studies have raised concerns about possible excess risks of bladder, brain and hepatobiliary cancers and leukaemias near landfill sites. Several cancers have been implicated, but no consistent pattern has emerged. We present a large nationwide analysis of selected cancers near landfill sites in Great Britain. The base population comprised people living within 2 km of 9565 (from a total of 19 196) landfill sites that were operational at some time from 1982 to 1997, with populations living more than 2 km from a landfill as reference. Risks of cancers at the above sites were computed with adjustment for age, sex, year of diagnosis, region and deprivation. National post-coded registers provided a total of 341 856 640 person -years for the adult cancer analyses and 113 631 443 person -years for childhood leukaemia. There were 89 786 cases of bladder cancer, 36 802 cases of brain cancer, 21 773 cases of hepatobiliary cancer, 37 812 cases of adult leukaemia and 3973 cases of childhood leukaemia. In spite of the very large scale of this national study, we found no excess risks of cancers of the bladder and brain, hepatobiliary cancer or leukaemia, in populations living within 2 km of landfill sites. The results were similar if the analysis were restricted to landfill sites licensed to carry special (hazardous) waste. Our results do not support suggestions of excess risks of cancer associated with landfill sites reported in other studies.

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Risk of congenital anomalies near hazardous-waste landfill sites in Europe: the EUROHAZCON study

Cited by 288 publications

References 15 publications

Forecasting environmental equity: Air quality responses to road user charging in Leeds, UK

Forecasting environmental equity: Air quality responses to road user charging in Leeds, UK

Hypospadias: Interactions between environment and genetics

Cancer risks in populations living near landfill sites in Great Britain

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