FEMA Blamed For Manipulating Data On Formaldehyde In Trailers

Louisville (dbTechno) - Lawmakers have come out and stated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to blame for playing around with and changing scientific research which said of the danger of toxic gas in trailers which housed thousands of hurricane Katrina and Rita survivors.

Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee stated that FEMA manipulated the scientific research to downplay the risk associated with the toxic gas in the trailers.

FEMA, according to the subcommittee, “ignored, hid, and manipulated government research on the potential impact of long-term exposure to formaldehyde.”

This goes for Katrina and Rita survivors still living in FEMA trailers.

The letter was sent to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who is in charge of the department where FEMA resides.

It has been revealed that the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ignored an expert, Christopher T. De Rosa.

De Rosa made it clear to FEMA that any level of exposure to formaldehyde, “may pose a cancer risk, regardless of duration.”

There are more than 40,000 trailers still be used by families who are survivors of hurricane Katrina back in August 2005, as well as Rita.

Agency spokesman James McIntyre has stated though that “FEMA did not suppress or inappropriately influence any report.”