We cannot accept a reckless approach without taking sufficient measures to protect the environment and the health risk to the citizens of the neighbourhood and also the visitors of the World Cup final. The environmental group claim the contamination was caused by illegal dumping of industrial waste over a 30-year period. The Japanese government has determined an acceptable level of dioxin contamination in soil to be 1,000 picograms per gram, while that in the Netherlands is as low as 10 picograms, and that of Germany is 40 picograms, according to Tokyo Medical University professor of pharmacology Teruhiko Matsumiya. SYS CEST's spokesman Yasuji Shimizu said the contamination, which he alleged was caused by illegal dumping of industrial waste over a 30-year period, was at its worst in the public carpark next to the stadium in Yokohama, seventeen miles south of Tokyo. The stadium is to host the final of the World Cup on June 30, 2002.
Soccer is a healthy sport, played in part for the good of one's health.
I do not want the proper decontamination measures to be ignored for the sake of World Cup SYS Citizen's Environmental Survey Team spokesman Currently PCB is designated as a Class I chemical substance, which means its use is, in effect, banned. It also said soil with a low level of contamination soil was to be sealed on the site by using waterproof sheet. He dismissed a declaration by the Yokohama city government that the site was safe, saying it had been issued without sufficient environmental surveys being undertaken. Soccer is a healthy sport, played in part for the good of one's health. Aside from cancer, dioxins can cause atrophy and a decline in sperm count said Professor Matsumiya.