Crematoria can cause acute poisoning and prolonged/cumulative health damage. What are the differences?

If someone hangs out close to a non-fenced-in crematorium and wind conditions are unfavorable, one can get very, very sick in a very short time-span of minutes from toxins such as Mercury vapor or many other crematorium emission toxins. Prolonged health damage can happen to people who live close to a crematorium and have low level exposure over time. Some crematoria emission toxins do not go away, they stay around and get blown around accumulating to less and less healthy levels. Further, there is cumulative damage to people as toxins like heavy metals or fine particulates can accumulate in a body and levels can become a huge health hazard over time. Often it can take 3-7 years for people to get terribly sick from prolonged low level crematorium emission poisoning.

What causes the health hazards caused by crematoria?

• Mercury from Amalgam teeth fillings

• PCDD/Fs - polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans

• PFAS pollution – per & polyfluorinated substances

• PAH – polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

• Fine particulate emission

• NO and NO2 - nitric oxide and nitrogen-dioxides.

• CO and CO2 – carbon-monoxide and carbon-dioxides

• Many toxins from caskets, clothes, chemotherapy, embalming fluid, radiation exposed implants not removed etc.

A good summary on emissions from crematoria – understanding the toxins:

https://no2crematory.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/toxic_emission_from-_crematoriesenv-intl.pdf

Research has shown an increased risk of stillbirth and anencephalus in relation to proximity to crematoria. Anencephalus is a serious birth defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. There is no known cure or standard treatment for anencephaly. Almost all babies born with anencephaly will die shortly after birth. (Photo courtesy of CDC)

Crematoria emit fine particulates – what does it mean?

Fine particulate matter is defined as particles that are 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5) PM2.5 exposure leads to adverse health impacts. Studies found an association between monthly PM2.5 levels and all-cause mortality, death caused by cardiovascular (CVD) and respiratory diseases. A significant correlation between PM2.5 and hospitalization for asthma, arrhythmia, and myocardial infarction was also found. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87468-5

Crematoria are NOT highly regulated or controlled in the State of Pennsylvania and actually they are not in most States in the US. Newer crematoria run with a two-chamber design and a hot temperature chamber before the gases exit. At higher temperatures the NOx gases, mostly nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxides, are greatly reduced and those are gases that damage the ozone. Also, running at higher temperatures reduces visible smoke and smell and furnaces even have sensors for opaqueness to be sure not too much visible smoke exits the exhaust, so people do not complain. That is like blindfolding people and very deceiving and dangerous. What everybody should care about instead is the toxins that damage people's health, and those are NOT sufficiently controlled in most crematoria, namely mercury (Hg) emissions, per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS), polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDDs and PCDFs), which are terrible human carcinogens and Mercury (Hg) is a neurotoxin. Additionally fine particulate matter is typically not properly filtered out and there is a significant correlation between PM2.5 and hospitalization of asthma, arrhythmia, and myocardial infarction. So, what is handled are gases that damage the ozone layer, but what is not handled is what causes people in the surrounding area to have cancer and other serious health issues. A child's developing nervous system is particularly sensitive to mercury and most newer crematoria in Pennsylvania are not equipped with proper mercury abatement equipment as is required in other countries. For babies and children, depending on the level of exposure, the effects can include a decrease in I.Q., delays in walking and talking, lack of coordination, blindness and seizures. In adults, extreme exposure can lead to health effects such as personality changes, tremors, changes in vision, deafness, loss of muscle coordination and sensation, memory loss, intellectual impairment, and even death. In a pregnant woman, it can also cross the placenta into the fetus, building up in the fetal brain and other tissues. The mercury vapor from Amalgam teeth - very stable as Amalgam, extremely dangerous in the very smallest quantities when released as a gas causes damage to the mouth, respiratory tract and lungs, and can lead to death from respiratory failure. The concern is about both acute mercury poisoning as well as cumulative poisoning in very small quantities over time. Mercury exposure also can cause Alzheimer for the older generation.