2024-04-04 18:09:00
Will the study on cancers in Semboules be financed by the Sophia Antipolis urban community? The answer is no.
As a reminder, at the request of the Semboules animation and defense committee (Cadis), the public health department of Nice University Hospital intends to carry out an epidemiological study to determine whether the cancer rate is higher in this area. neighborhood near the household waste incinerator and, therefore, perhaps more exposed to the fallout of dioxins, toxic chemical substances.
The much more polluting highway
Invited on March 22 to Semboules by the local residents’ association, doctor Engènia Marine-Barjoan presented the similar study, carried out around the Ariane factory in Nice (which could not determine whether the factory, between 2005 and 2014, was the only factor leading to an increase in lung cancer among men). A study which was financed by the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis: 40,000 euros.
Asked about this by Nice morning during a press conference at Univalom, Jean Leonetti gave his clear opinion: “the results were not conclusive. The study must be prospective. That is to say, it would be necessary to take a cohort of people who are in particular conditions, and others who are not in the same conditions, follow them over 10 years and see if there is a prevalence of cancer. And then the real pollution is the highway all around, which pollutes 10 to 20 times more than the factory in terms of fine particles and dioxins.”
The president of the Casa even advances : “the factory has 3 barbecues per year! (1). Lung cancer is multifactorial. To arrive at a conclusion, it would take hundreds of thousands of elements. Either we falsely reassure ourselves by saying that there are not many cancers or we don’t spend 40,000 euros on that.”
Threshold below standard
Especially since emissions of dioxins and furans from the Semboules incinerator are capped at 0.05 nanograms per cubic meter, which is lower than European standards which set them at 0.08 nanograms in 2003.
Conclusion, therefore: “with our thresholds, there is no risk across the entire territory.”
1. Jean Leonetti draws on a 2006 study by Professor Jean-Louis Cousin, at Nice Sophia Antipolis University, which explains that we find 6 to 7 times more dioxins in the environment of barbecues than nearby incinerators.
1712255797
#Sophia #Antipolis #agglomeration #finance #study #cancers #Semboules #district #incinerator