New health fears of neighbours and former workers exposed to dioxin from an agri-chemical factory in New Plymouth.
Picture: Noel Scouller, one of the Paritutu residents concerned about dioxin exposure.
Four decades after the heftiest doses of dioxin drifted onto neighbourhoods around a New Plymouth chemical plant, a health service is being set up for exposed residents.
The focus has been on a single dioxin – but tests show that Paritutu residents also have other dioxins and PCBs in their blood.
Craig Ashworth investigates the new concerns.
From Insight on 15 Jun 2008 Updated at 10:55 am on 21 November 2014
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/insight/audio/1572979/insight,-15-june-a-chemical-legacy
