Abstract
Methyl isocyanate gas from a chemical plant at Bhopal, India, killed about 2500 people in November 1984 and left thousands more to an uncertain fate. Compared to this most tragic chem¬ical plant accident in history, the July 10, 1976, accident at Sev-eso, Italy, which killed no one, seems, in retrospect, a tame affair. But it did not seem so at the time. About a half pound of dioxin, mixed in a vapor with much greater amounts of tri-chlorophenol and caustic lime, spewed from the Italian plant and spread across the adjoining area.
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Gough, M. (1986). Seveso: High-Level Environmental Exposure. In: Dioxin, Agent Orange. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6130-3_9
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