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Dutch have run human, animal diesel tests ‘for years’

By AFP
January 31, 2018

THE HAGUE: The Dutch have been performing tests “for years” on humans and animals to study the effects of diesel fumes, scientists told Dutch media Tuesday, amid an outcry in Germany over similar experiments. On one occasion in 2006, volunteers were exposed to diluted emissions from a diesel engine for a maximum of two hours, the Dutch daily NRC said. These are similar to the emissions breathed in every day in a busy town or close to motorways, Flemming Casse, a toxicologist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), told the paper. And he dismissed the outcry which has erupted around similar revelations in Germany and the United States as “a storm in a teacup”.