Incinerators: Health Hazards
(asked on 23rd May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress has been made on Public Health England's study into the health impact of incinerators.
This question was answered on 1st June 2016
The Public Health England funded study by the Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU) at Imperial College and the Environmental Research Group at King’s College, London, investigating the potential link between emissions from municipal waste incinerators and health outcomes is ongoing. It is expected that papers from the project will be submitted by SAHSU to peer reviewed journals later in 2016.