Seveso disaster was turning point for EU environmental safety awareness - Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 10 - The Seveso disaster was a turning point for EU environmental safety awareness, President Sergio Mattarella said on the 50th anniversary of the calamitous dioxin industrial plant contamination near Monza Friday. "What happened in Seveso became a turning point in the Italian and European consciousness for the culture of safety and prevention, which the Seveso emergency significantly and duly accelerated," said Mattarella, in Seveso at the official ceremony marking the fi...

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