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Community Health Study Volume 2 |
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Author: Centre for Environmental Health Pty Ltd (Dr K Bentley)
Date: May 2007
This document contains the Volume 2 report (entitled: "OTML Community Health Study Volume 2: Health status in the Ok Tedi-Fly River communities; Hazard and exposure assessment; Risk characterisation; and Risk analysis"); a supplementary work (entitled "Containment and essential metals in human hair scalp in the Ok Tedi-Fly River and Lake Murray regions") and the Volume 2 appendices relating to drinking and recreational water analytical data, soil analytical data and air monitoring data.
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Community Health Study Volume 1 Appendices |
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Author: Centre for Environental Health Pty Ltd (Dr K. Bentley)
Date: May 2007
The appendices to the Community Health Study's Volume 1 report contain data collected from the anthropometric survey of 4,000 community members relating to the five components presented in Volume 1 (viz: Twenty-four hour dietary recall; Food frequency survey; Unit (individual) food consumption; Contaminant and essential metal market basket survey; and Nutritional anthropometrics).
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Community Health Study Volume 1 Report |
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Author: Centre for Environmental Health Pty Ltd (Dr K. Bentley)
Date: May 2007
This three year study assessed the total metal uptake pathways of villages inside the mine's impact footprint as well as similar control villages. This Volume 1 report is titled: "OTML Community Health Study Volume 1: Design, conduct, and analysis of the OTML CHS food and nutrition studies including: Twenty-four hour dietary recall; Food frequency survey; Unit (individual) food consumption; Contaminant and essential metal market basket survey; and Nutritional anthropometrics".
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Author: CSIRO (Drs R. Hammon and M. McLaughlin)
Date: August 2003
This report comprises an independent scientific review of the literature to assess the impact of cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) (metals nominated in the environmental Regime) on edibility of food crops produced in the Fly River flood plain, downstream of the Ok Tedi mining operation. The review addresses several specific issues relating to soil metal availability to crop plants, with the objective of assisting OTML to fulfil its monitoring obligations under the Regime.
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Human Health and Nutrition Assessment, Fly River |
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Author: Dr S. Flew and Dr T. Taufa
Date: December 1999
This study is a baseline assessment of human health in Fly River villages. The study includes an overview of nutritional data, a dental report, as well as a discussion on heavy metals and human health. It also includes a literature review of previous health studies in the area.
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Review Comments on Key Issues Relating to the HERA |
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Author: Peer Review Group
Date: April 2000
This report comments on key issues and updates the previous report (July 1999). It also summarises peer reveiw comments on the November 1999 report prepared for OTML by Parametrix Inc. and URS Greiner Woodward Clyde "Assessment of Human Health and Ecological Risks for Proposed Mine Waste Mitigation Options at the Ok Tedi Mine, PNG".
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HERA - Detailed Level Risk Assessment |
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Author: Parametrix, Inc, and URS Greiner Woodward Clyde
Date: November 1999
As the second part of the detailed Human Health and Eclogical Risk Assessment, this Detailed Level Risk Assessment is based on the key issues identified by the Screening Level Risk Assessment. It uses outputs from all the supporting Ok Tedi scientific studies. Key issues assessed in the DLRA include: sedimentation/aggradation, dieback, fish catch reductions, and copper toxicity.
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HERA - Screening Level Risk Assessment |
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Author: Parametrix, Inc and URS Greiner Woodward Clyde
Date: November 1999
As the first part of a detailed Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment, this Screening Level Risk Assessment identifies key issues relating to the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the Ok Tedi / Fly River systems downstream of the mine using a conservative methodology. The data for the SLRA, based on knowledge to July 1999, are from a wide range of sources including international standards and data available through the published scientific literature.
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Comments on the Science Underlying the Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA) |
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Author: Peer Review Group
Date: July 1999
In 1997, Ok Tedi Mining Ltd formed a Peer Review Group (PRG) of senior scientists to provide advice, recommendations and peer review of all studies related to the HERA. The five PRG members were: namely Professor Margaret Burchett, Professor Peter Campbell, Dr Peter Chapman (Chair), Professor William Dietrich, and Professor Barry Hart. This report comments on the science applied to the studies, as it was available to the PRG in final or final draft form.
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Report on the Survey of the Lower Ok Tedi Villages |
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Author: R. Jackson
Date: June 1998
A baseline study of the social and economic status of 17 villages in the lower Ok Tedi area. It analyses the data to recommend socio-economic indicators for future comparative studies.
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