The seveso disaster was a chemical accident on 10 july 1976, at the small italian town of meda, 20 km from milan in lombardy. Icmesa was a chemical industry of the swiss company givaudan from 1963 belonging to the multinational pharmaceutical company hoffmannla roche. Mitsuo kobayashi graduate school of new frontier sciences, university of tokyo. The economy of the town has traditionally been based on the furniture industry. The cloud of poison gas covered an area 6 km long and 1 km wide. Mortality in a population exposed to dioxin after the seveso, italy, accident in 1976.
Apr 06, 2017 seveso disaster is a man made disaster occured in italy due to the leakage of dioxin slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Flixborough 1974 and seveso 1976 accidents attention to safe design and operating seveso directive 82501eec seveso i of 24 june 1982 on the majoraccident hazards of certain industrial activities 82501eec bhopal, mexico city 1984 and basel 1982 attention to land use planning, safety management. Seveso synonyms, seveso pronunciation, seveso translation, english dictionary definition of seveso. Its name comes from the river of the same name which crosses the comune in a northsouth direction seveso received the honorary title of city with a. Seveso definition of seveso by the free dictionary. Explosion of chemical plant in seveso, italy july 10, 1976. Other affected neighbouring communities were meda 19,000, desio 33,000, cesano maderno 34,000 and to a lesser extent barlassina 6,000 and bovisiomasciago 11,000. There was an explosion at a chemical factory which released a lot of the toxic poison dioxin, tcdd, into the air. Seveso disaster simple english wikipedia, the free. Seveso disaster, italy 1976 fhs apenvironmentalscience. The seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12.
Marshall, 1987 laccident, son deroulement et ses consequences laccident. Aug 19, 1976 the north italian town of seveso has been the scene of an ecological disaster that sounds the alarm about mankinds fatally laggard approach to the problems of chemical contamination. Tens of thousands of farm animals and pets died or were later deliberately slaughtered, though it is believed that there was not a. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Seveso disaster simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Juli 1976 entwich aus einer chemiefabrik in norditalien hochgiftiges dioxin. Until 1976 industrie chimiche meda societa azionaria icmesa was located at the border with the town of desio. Wikimedia openstreetmap modifier modifier le code modifier wikidata documentation du modele. The industrial accidents convention and the seveso ii iii. The seveso disaster was named because seveso, with a population of 17,000 in 1976, was the community most affected. Pdf seveso accident analysis and safety management. Mar 02, 2018 seveso disaster, italy 1976 fhs apenvironmentalscience.