Still time to test for toxic residue after Mitchell disaster

Updated April 19 2018 - 8:32am, first published December 28 2013 - 3:00am

Your article ''Toxic explosion tests bungled'' (December 20, p1) on the huge chemical explosion at the Mitchell Factory in 2011 confirms what I had been expecting. The ACT government was never serious about discovering whether Canberrans have been, and still are being exposed to, dioxin and other highly dangerous PCBs. They claimed that the spread of the plume and airborne matter was less than it was. People in my part of Ainslie, including myself, had burning eyes and coughing when outside on the morning after the explosion.

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