[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "Marine Corps reports high levels of toxins at Okinawa [Japan] base, but no ‘human health’ risk"

[Lenny Siegel]

Marine Corps reports high levels of toxins at Okinawa base, but no ‘human health’ risk

By MATTHEW M. BURKE AND KEISHI KOJA  
STARS AND STRIPES 
February 8, 2023

CAMP KINSER, Okinawa ⁠— A Marine Corps report in 2019 detailed high levels of toxins at this seaside logistics base on southern Okinawa but concluded they posed no risk to the base population.

A “human health risk assessment” by the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, from Oct. 16, 2019, revealed high levels of dioxin and pesticides at three spots on Camp Kinser. 

The Okinawa Times obtained the document through the Freedom of Information Act and first reported on it Jan. 16. Marine Corps Installations Pacific responded to the Times article afterward and later provided Stars and Stripes a copy of the health center’s report on Jan. 24.

While the levels were reportedly not high enough to induce cancer, they exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency safety standards, according to the document’s authors.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2023-02-08/marine-corps-toxins-camp-kinser-okinawa-9074050.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)