I bambini/e sardi che risiedono vicino al pià grande impianto del mondo e che si trova in Sardenga vicino a Cagliari, presentano gravi alterazioni del DNA. Questi i risultati di una ricerca dell’Università di Oxford, il cui abstract leggete qui sotto. Ci riguarda tutti. Propongo però che  noi donne ci si possa sentire coinvolte testa e corpo in questo delitto: la tutela della vita di chi non può ancora difendersi la sento come una priorità. http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/3/315.short

Air quality is a primary environmental concern in highly industrialised areas, with potential health effects in children residing nearby. The Sarroch industrial estate in Cagliari province, Sardinia Island, Italy, hosts the world’s largest power plant and the second largest European oil refinery and petrochemical park. This industrial estate produces a complex mixture of air pollutants, including benzene, heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate the prevalence of malondialdehyde–deoxyguanosine adducts in the nasal epithelium of 75 representative children, aged 6–14 years, attending primary and secondary schools in Sarroch in comparison with 73 rural controls. Additionally, the levels of bulky DNA adducts were analysed in a subset of 62 study children. DNA damage was measured by³²P-postlabelling methodologies. The air concentrations of benzene and ethyl benzene were measured in the school gardens of Sarroch and a rural village by diffusive samplers. Outdoor measurements were also performed in other Sarroch areas and in the proximity of the industrial estate. The outdoor levels of benzene and ethyl benzene were significantly... Continua a leggere...