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Obvious's avatar

The East Palestine "train wreck" reportedly carried and released butyl acrylate and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate . Some of the reported toxic effects are consistent with acrylate monomers. Some of the toxic effects were reported before the vinyl chloride burnoff. Dioxin is not the only toxin.

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Modern Discontent's avatar

I actually covered that in a few prior posts such as this one:

https://moderndiscontent.substack.com/p/interim-update-to-east-palestine

In order to answer what's going on a timeline of events needs to be corroborated with a timeline of symptoms. Different compounds will lead to different symptoms and understanding when different exposures happened is critical in order to piece things together.

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Patricia Stanley's avatar

Another good reason to fire the EPA and leave the states in charge. They are incompetent and could care less about finding the truth.

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