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The Air Quality Commission of the City of Cartagena, chaired by the Councilor for Quality of Life, Francisco Calderón, held a new meeting on Wednesday, June 7.
This time in Casa Grande, within the facilities of SABIC in La Aljorra, where the Councilor for Citizen Security Francisco Aznar was also present;
The head of Laboratory of the City of Cartagena, Nuria Vergara;
The technician of the Department of Environment, José Luis Gómez;
Firefighters;
Local Police of Cartagena;
Representatives of the Autonomous Community, municipal groups in the Consistory of Cartagena and different associations of neighbors, as well as representatives of the chemical plant that hosted this session.
The location of this meeting was approved at the last meeting of the Air Quality Table, which meets every two months, in order that from SABIC "all questions, doubts and questions that may arise, are made in the Site indicated, "and stressed that after the meeting has been a visit to the company's facilities.
The meeting on Wednesday has reviewed the situation of the previous demands raised at the table, such as the campaigns of measurement of Biofenol A (BPA) and other industrial pollutants, the state of the renewal of measuring equipment of the REd Of Air Quality in the Municipal Term of Cartagena and the neighborhood concern in relation to the scientific study on the presence of heavy metals in the Diputación de Llano del Beal.
Thus, it has been put on the table the possibility of installing a metering plant of BPA that controls the emission levels of this organic compound in La Aljorra.
And is that, has reminded the mayor of Quality of Life, is still pending the decision on where to place the new meters equipment that the Ministry of Environment plans to install in the Autonomous Community of Murcia.
In this sense, stressed Calderón, the former director general of Quality and Environmental Assessment, Encarna Molina, assured this work group that a series of these teams had already been put out to tender.
On the other hand, has made reference to a question formulated by the group Ecologistas en Acción about an investigation that has been carried out by medical personnel of the University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca around the relation between the formation of tumors in children And pollution.
For his part, Nuria Vergara has maintained contact with the scientific director of this project, Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega, who has transmitted the conclusions of his study.
Thus, the municipal laboratory chief has stressed that, as Ortega explained, "to date, the relationship between childhood cancer and air pollution is inconsistent and speculative."
In this regard, he explained that, according to Ortega's research, "there are not enough scientific studies to support a real relationship."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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