Period+8+-+Seveso

 Seveso Disaster

   

...are awesome MAJOR DETAILS
 * A city in northern Italy
 * 10 July 1976
 * chemical containing dioxin released from chemical factory
 * 37,000 people exposed between Milan and Lake Como
 * concerns about long term health problems
 * can cause skin disfiguration, birth defects, miscarriages and cancer
 * Dioxin is considered one of, if not the most toxic man-made substance
 * Released from commercial or municiapl waste incineration, manufacture and use of certain herbicides and chlorine bleaching of pulp and paper

CAUSES OF EVENT The Seveso incident came about because an increase in pressure due to an exothermic reaction in the TCP vessel forced the rupture disk of a safety valve to burst in building B of the Industrie Chimche Societa Azionaria (ICMESA) chemical plant in Meda, Italy on Saturday, July 10, 1976. This event caused an explosion to release a dense vapor cloud containing tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin (TCDD) to be released from a reactor, used for the production of trichlorofenol that wafted an estimated 50 meters into the sky. The cloud was carried southeast by the wind and completely covered Seveso as well as other surrounding cities.

http://www.getipm.com/articles/seveso-italy.htm http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu21le/uu21le0a.htm#chronology

HAVE ANY LAWS OR POLICES BEEN CHANGED OR CREATED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE EVENT?

Member States shall require the operator to draw up a document setting out his major-accident prevention policy and to ensure that it is properly implemented. The major-accident prevention policy established by the operator shall be designed to guarantee a high level of protection for man and the environment by appropriate means, structures and management systems. Member States shall prohibit the use or bringing into use of any establishment, installation or storage facility, or any part thereof where the measures taken by the operator for the prevention and mitigation of major accidents are seriously deficient

__Works Cited:__ http://mahbsrv.jrc.it/framework-seveso2-leg-en.html#Article17http://mahbsrv.jrc.it/framework-seveso2-leg-en.html#Article7 "Seveso" //A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation//. Chris Park. Oxford University Press, 2007. //Oxford Reference Online//. Oxford University Press. Cumberland Valley High School. 30 October 2008 < http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t244.e7318 >

"dioxin" //A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation//. Chris Park. Oxford University Press, 2007. //Oxford Reference Online//. Oxford University Press. Cumberland Valley High School. 30 October 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t244.e2093

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/dioxinqa.html#g1


 * Project could have incorporated more information about the Seveso event. Only two pictures were used, one less than the required amount; more pictures should have been put in to draw the reader's attention. The bibliography was very good, and the MLA format was impressive. Overall, this was was okay. Information did not go into much detail, and additional research could have been done to make it more effective.


 * Comments:**

-Overall, Seveso project did well. Could have used more facts about actual event thought. Bibliography was done very well, following MLA format. Pictures added nicely to project description, and we sited as well. Overall, very good.

-A job well done to pd. 8 Seveso group. Causes of event is a little wordy with high vocabulary (hard to understand) but it gets the point across. Map is a nice touch. Bibliography is impressive. Nice.