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Court: Civic body guilty for pollution-linked birth defects [1]

London: A British court has ruled in favor of a group of young people who say pollution from a former steelworks contributed to their birth defects.

Eighteen claimants aged between nine and 22 sued a local authority, claiming their mothers were exposed to what one expert called an

Publication Date: 
30/07/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Iron And Steel Industry [3], Health Effects [4], Industrial Pollution [5], Infants [6], Child Health [7], Pesticides And Toxins [8], United Kingdom (UK) [9], London [10], Toxic Wastes [11]

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