“one-off and reversible” health effects

What was the impact on health of the fire at the Lubrizol and NL Logistics warehouses in Rouen on September 26, 2019? Although it caused neither deaths nor injuries, unlike the AZF explosion in Toulouse (31 dead, 2,500 injured) in 2001, this fire had led to the formation of a plume of smoke 22 kilometers long. and 8 kilometers wide generating atmospheric pollution, soot fallout in “leopard skins” on the territory and exposed the population to a sulfur odor for several weeks (several months near the site). A “quantitative assessment of health risks ” (EQRS) associated with this fire carried out by the Ramboll design office concludes with ” one-off and reversible effects ”, Even near the burnt sites. This very technical study of 608 pages evaluated a posteriori the risks induced by the fire for the health of the 287,000 inhabitants of Seine-Maritime concerned.

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It was made public on December 10 by the Prefect of Seine-Maritime Pierre-André Durand before the Transparency and Dialogue Committee, a body created in the aftermath of the fire to allow the exchange of information between the services of the ‘State, elected officials, operators, unions, consular chambers and associations for the protection of the environment and the defense of victims.

« We have been lied to enough, the study, we will do it ourselves », Launches the disaster victims association

It will be understood that the “EQRS” study is not a medical study but a “computational study” in which, after modeling the dispersion of pollutants, the exposure doses of people compared to toxicological values ​​are calculated. reference, inhalation and ingestion exposure.

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