Petition updateNo more kids with cancer: clean up the Santa Susana Field LabLos Angeles QKED News Story: 9 out of 10 could get cancer

Melissa BumsteadLos Angeles, CA, United States
May 17, 2017
This news story shows that Boeing acknowledges that the SSFL is still dangerous and according the most rigorous standards, they acknowledge their proposed cleanup could hypothetically cause 9 out of 10 residents to have cancer.
"Some residential scenarios are more rigorous than others. DTSC scientists who assesses the health risks of pollution recommended including a strict residential standard in setting the screening levels for Santa Susana. But in 2013, the department accepted a Boeing method that skipped the strictest benchmarks."
"One result was a 2015 risk assessment in which Boeing discreetly contradicted itself. It started out by claiming the pollution really wasn’t that bad. But buried in an appendix was an acknowledgment that if Boeing were to factor in the possibility of people eating fruit and vegetables grown on the site, it would have to admit to a cancer risk as high as three in 10."
"An assessment for another portion of the laboratory grounds acknowledged that if Boeing were to apply the strict standard there, it would have to admit the pollution was severe enough that for every 10 hypothetical people living there, 9 would get cancer."
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