The leakage accident occurred just before noon on july 10th, 1976. Apr 06, 2017 seveso disaster is a man made disaster occured in italy due to the leakage of dioxin slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Wikimedia openstreetmap modifier modifier le code modifier wikidata documentation du modele. The seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12. The economy of the town has traditionally been based on the furniture industry.
Aug 19, 1976 the north italian town of seveso has been the scene of an ecological disaster that sounds the alarm about mankinds fatally laggard approach to the problems of chemical contamination. Marshall, 1987 laccident, son deroulement et ses consequences laccident. Seveso made world headlines when, on 10 july 1976, storage vessels at the icmesa chemical plant ruptured, releasing several kilograms of the dioxin tcdd 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzopdioxin into the atmosphere. It resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzopdioxin tcdd in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and. There was an explosion at a chemical factory which released a lot of the toxic poison dioxin, tcdd, into the air. Masamitsu tamura graduate school of new frontier sciences, university of tokyo at about 12. Flixborough 1974 and seveso 1976 accidents attention to safe design and operating seveso directive 82501eec seveso i of 24 june 1982 on the majoraccident hazards of certain industrial activities 82501eec bhopal, mexico city 1984 and basel 1982 attention to land use planning, safety management. It resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzopdioxin tcdd in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized. Seveso synonyms, seveso pronunciation, seveso translation, english dictionary definition of seveso. Pdf seveso accident analysis and safety management. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website.
This paper describes, by means of a unique case study, i. May 30, 2008 dopo piu di 30 anni dalla tragedia che colpi seveso litalia non e ancora fuori pericolo da incidenti simili. Seveso is a municipality located 20 km north of milan. Seveso disaster simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Its name comes from the river of the same name which crosses the comune in a northsouth direction seveso received the honorary title of city with a. The seveso disaster was a chemical accident on 10 july 1976, at the small italian town of meda, 20 km from milan in lombardy. The industrial accidents convention and the seveso ii iii.
Icmesa was a chemical industry of the swiss company givaudan from 1963 belonging to the multinational pharmaceutical company hoffmannla roche. Other affected neighbouring communities were meda 19,000, desio 33,000, cesano maderno 34,000 and to a lesser extent barlassina 6,000 and bovisiomasciago 11,000. Tens of thousands of farm animals and pets died or were later deliberately slaughtered, though it is believed that there was not a. Seveso definition of seveso by the free dictionary.
Seveso disaster simple english wikipedia, the free. Medical problems raised by the tcdd contamination in seveso, italy. Mitsuo kobayashi graduate school of new frontier sciences, university of tokyo. The cloud of poison gas covered an area 6 km long and 1 km wide. Direttiva seveso iii associazione ambiente e lavoro. Until 1976 industrie chimiche meda societa azionaria icmesa was located at the border with the town of desio. Seveso disaster, italy 1976 fhs apenvironmentalscience. Mortality in a population exposed to dioxin after the seveso, italy, accident in 1976. Mar 02, 2018 seveso disaster, italy 1976 fhs apenvironmentalscience. Explosion of chemical plant in seveso, italy july 10, 1976.
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