By PoliticalConcern:
Senior ministers have been told that the nerve agent used to poison
Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, on Sunday 4 March 2018 near
Porton Down, has been identified by Porton Down experts as the
organophosphate Novichock. Porton Down’s research focus has successively
been known as Chemical Warfare, Chemical Defence, Chemical &
Biological Defence and now Defence Science and Technology. Areas of
concern are outlined here. Early British collaboration with American chemical warfare research (aka ‘field studies’) is acknowledged here.
In 2015 the Guardian reported that
a cross-party MPs called for an inquiry into the compulsory use of
dangerous chemicals called organophosphates (OPs), used to protect
livestock from parasites. The Farmers Weekly reported that the Sheep Dip Sufferers Support Group repeated this call in 2016
The problem was first identified by Dr Goran Jamal, a Kurdish-born
neurologist working in Glasgow, who later gave evidence of OP-related
Gulf War Syndrome. Read Booker’s compelling account in Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth, or extracts from it here.
