Not just FEMA - the CDC suppresses toxic warning to hurricane victims

[Coexist]

from CBS News

CBS News has learned that the Centers for Disease Control, the nation's top public health agency, suppressed repeated warnings from one of its top scientists, raising questions about whether the CDC bowed to pressure from FEMA to conceal the long-term health risks of formaldehyde in the trailers it distributed to hurricane victims - health risks like cancer and birth defects, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports.

A string of internal documents obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal that Dr. Christopher De Rosa, director of the CDC's Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, told his superiors "there is no safe level of exposure" to formaldehyde in trailers. That warning never made its way into any public report about the trailers.

In addition, Dr. De Rosa wrote in an email that two of his staff members had been directed by FEMA officials to not "address longer term health effects" of formaldehyde in this February 2007 report.

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In fact, it wasn't until October 2007 - after eight months and pressure from congressional investigators that the CDC revised its February report and finally issued warnings about cancer and other long-term health risks of formaldehyde.

... this is so incredibly sad.

[Ian David]

1. It's a good thing Impeachment is off the table. n/t

[flashl]

2. Think about the 'trailer' villages on school campuses. nt

[Coexist]

3. are they the same?

my kids are in them all the time.

[flashl]

5. In reports, the word ‘formaldehyde’ is not used directly but off-gassing

and indoor air quality is used when expressing health concerns. The only state that I am aware of that have taken the makers of those units for schools to task is California.

[spanone]

4. i don't have enough outrage to go around...

[jtrockville]

6. These poor people. They've been through so much! nt

[countryjake]

7. I knew it!

FEMA......the agency that keeps on killing. I wonder now who the CDC will be passing the buck to, once the lawsuits begin pouring in? I can just smell the Department of Homeland Security lurking behind all of these poison trailers.