Seveso Disaster

 

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Imagine that you work for a petrochemical company. Through a recent discussion with colleagues, your big boss has learned about a catastrophe that occurred some years ago in a different company and he would like to know more about it. He has asked his assistant to search the literature for some pieces of information about:

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Seveso disaster -rom ikipedia, the free encyclopedia /526, in a small chemical The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around /0:12 pm 3uly /4, /526, 9ilan  in the ombardy ombardy  region in in  Italy. Italy. It resulted in the highest manufacturing plant appro7imately 08 km north of  9ilan known e7posure to  to 0,1,2,;(tetrachlorodibenzo(p(dio7in 0,1,2,;(tetrachlorodibenzo(p(dio7in  T/? which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations. The @A @A  industrial safety regulations are known as the "eveso II =irective. =irective. Contents

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