The St. Lucie county Health Department, along with the Florida Department of Health, Centeres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ASTDR) and several other national agencies, began an epidemiological study which is ongoing at this writing.
The St. Lucie County Health Department conducted what appears to be one of the nation's largest residential environmental samplings for 561 different chemicals, chemical compounds and radiologicals in air, water, soil and dust. If effect, this investigation sampled for indicators of everything possible. The sampling and testing took over a year (1997-1998). Since there was no tolerance for questionable laboratory results, numerous re-samplings were conducted to assure unquestioned and accurate results.
No direct links from chemicals to childhood cancers and no differences between chemicals present in case homes versus control homes have been found. Nor have we found evidence of a "cancer cluster." If you have any other questions, please e-mail: James_Moses doh.state.fl.us.
Report to the Community  (pdf - 73.8kb)
Cancer Risks and Environmental Exposures in St. Lucie County, Florida (pdf - 364kb)
Radiological Data Summary (pdf - 57.2kb) |
