Publications

multinationals and health: reflections on the seveso catastrophe.	on july 10, 1976, a cloud of vaporized products containing dioxin escaped from a deposit of a plant of the icmesa firm in the northern suburbs of milan. the fallout was deposited on a vast zone in the municipalities of desio, seveso, meda, and cesano. dioxin was not the desired product of the industrial process, but rather an impurity which generally accompanies trichlorophenol, and, to a smaller extent, the products synthesized from trichlorophenol. among these there are hexachlorophene and the ...	1978	103846
[systematic research on mycoses. results and considerations on a large and systematic epidemiologic survey of histoplasmosis in the region of lombardy and venetia].		1972	4674892
human-dominated ecosystems and restoration ecology: seveso today.	seveso is a town (40,000 inhabitants) 16 km north of milan, which from 10 july 1976 became synonymous with the chemically induced ecological catastrophe because of the large number of people affected by dioxin exposure and of the large area involved. the most polluted area (about 43 ha) was artificially reconstructed and transformed into a wood composed mainly of oaks with some scattered green fields and some bushy areas, the bosco delle querce urban park. a four-year survey monitoring the prese ...	2001	11372841