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1. (WV spill update) Many chemical spill questions remain, first WVTAP reports say

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201403170075
March 17, 2014
Many chemical spill questions remain, first WVTAP reports say
By Ken Ward Jr.

(short excerpts from a much longer article)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two new reports from an independent team confirmed Monday that people can smell extremely low concentrations of Crude MCHM and that significant data gaps exist that cloud what is known about the potential public health impacts of January's Elk River chemical spill.

The reports from the West Virginia Testing Assessment Project, or WVTAP, outlined findings about the odor threshold for Crude MCHM and summarized the limited data about the toxicity of that chemical and others spilled into the Elk River on Jan. 9 by Freedom Industries...

... In its other report, a review of potential health effects of the spilled chemicals, the WVTAP team gave a more detailed description than government officials had previously provided, while emphasizing that there is little scientific data about the materials involved.

"Very limited toxicological data has been reported for MCHM Crude or pure MCHM," says the health effects review, co-authored by Craig Adams, an environmental engineer at Utah State University.... MORE