A ROTTERDAM docker in 2006 fell down convulsing with an epileptic seizures and another felt an irritation in his throat and began salivating, recalled the Atlantic Monthly in a scarifying piece on toxic gases emitted from shipping containers.
All reported injuries were released from hospital with no lasting ill effects reported.
Based on a thesis by Ruth Hinz, a doctoral candidate at Massey University in New Zealand, the article cited no other cases, except to say that odorless and colorless methyl bromide is commonly found in shipping containers.
Said Gunnar Johanson, a toxicologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who acted as a peer reviewer for Ms Hinz's study: 'We don't know how big the risk is, but it's unnecessary. All it takes is better ventilation.'
Chemicals are pumped into cargo containers on purpose as fumigants. Methyl bromide is one example, though its use is now regulated or banned in many countries, said the Atlantic.
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All reported injuries were released from hospital with no lasting ill effects reported.
Based on a thesis by Ruth Hinz, a doctoral candidate at Massey University in New Zealand, the article cited no other cases, except to say that odorless and colorless methyl bromide is commonly found in shipping containers.
Said Gunnar Johanson, a toxicologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who acted as a peer reviewer for Ms Hinz's study: 'We don't know how big the risk is, but it's unnecessary. All it takes is better ventilation.'
Chemicals are pumped into cargo containers on purpose as fumigants. Methyl bromide is one example, though its use is now regulated or banned in many countries, said the Atlantic.
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