by Lionel Bascom — November 19th, 2006 — 1 comment
The feds have refused to change practices that might have created new standards to change autopsy guidelines to document a link between the deaths of rescue workers and the toxic air at Ground Zero.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said the agency would “pursue other avenues for documenting long-term health effects from exposure to air contaminants from the World Trade Center disaster.” The medical examiner for the city Fire Department says there are “insurmountable barriers” to studying the problem. There seems to be enormous problems related to standardizing test methods that can weed out all kinds of special interests, including lawyers interested in filing civil lawsuits and others with “undeniable self-interest in a cause of death. Meanwhile, construction of the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero continues with construction crews pouring tons of concrete for the footings that will support the 1,776 foot tower.
9:31 PM in Uncategorized, The Construction, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, We Will Never Forget, Freedom Tower News
What is “undeniable self-interest in the cause of death?” Wouldn’t that be suicide?
The “feds” refusing to change practices comes as no surprise. It takes the employees of the federal government a very long time to change any policy, let alone one that would inevitably result in a colossal expense to the American public. BTW, there are many federal employees who are also suffering from severe health issues as the result of working in the vicinity of Ground Zero.
Jeanne · November 19th, 2006 at 9:47 pm