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The Irish Doctors Environmental Association strongly opposes the plans for a waste incinerator in Kilcock, as it does for other proposed sites throughout the country. Our concerns relate to the adverse health effects from toxic substances in the emissions, which being mainly fat soluble, accumulate in body tissues and are concentrated up the food-chain, eventually being absorbed by humans through consumption of e.g. cow's milk, meat, fish and eggs and subsequently passed to the foetus in a higher concentration. Possible ill-effects include altered immune responses and disordered endocrine effects such as decreased fertility, lowered I.Q. and cancer. |
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