POMPTON LAKES, N.J. — New Jersey state officials plan to expand a study of cancer cases in a town where a DuPont munitions plant was once located, the Associated Press reported.
A previous report by the state Health Department showed increased rates of kidney cancer among women and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in men in a neighborhood near a plume of polluted groundwater, but could not conclusively link the cancers to the toxins in the groundwater, the article stated.
The solvents that are polluting the groundwater had been used at the DuPont factory, which was closed in 1994, the story reported.
DuPont is currently studying groundwater cleanup methods, company spokesman Robert Nelson said.
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