Responding to the concerns of community partners after Hurricane Florence, the Duke Superfund Community Engagement Core worked with community groups and state and local government agencies over the course of several months to assess the safety of fish caught at Lake Sutton. As a result, today the lake has advisory […]
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By Sena McCrory, Summer Research Intern, Research Translation and Community Engagement Cores “So, what threshold should we use for safe arsenic concentrations in garden soils?” “Well, technically, there isn’t any “safe” level of exposure. It’s a continuous scale—it’s not as if on one side of the threshold it’s safe and […]
A team of local health educators will begin outreach this weekend to promote behavior changes for reducing contaminant exposure and safer ways to catch, clean, and cook fish from the Northeast Cape Fear River. By Emma Bilecky, CEC Summer Intern North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services fish […]