The Poison That Fell from the Sky

by John G. Fuller

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394424956
• ISBN13: 9780394424958
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A horror story that could happen to us

A chilling account of the 1976 industrial disaster which changed forever the lives of the inhabitants of Seveso, Italy. An explosion at a Hoffman-La Roche affiliated chemical plant, released a deadly cloud containing dioxin, a close relative to "Agent Orange". Details of the event and efforts by authorities and scientists to identify the chemical (with little help from Hoffman-La Roche), made for a gripping book. Fuller recounted the despair and pain of the hundreds of people who lost everything they've build and visited with life-long debilitating conditions, cancers and birth mutations. This book should serve as a warning to us who live with thousands of chemicals, most of which whose effects on the population and the environment are unkown. With profit-orientated industries and lax regulations, there are countless Sevesos waiting to happen.