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The Balpa conference of April 2005 was quite a step forward for the subject.
For those unaware, 17 medical and industry experts from all over the world got together for 2 days to present their evidence.
The work is all contained in a 300 page book, but here are the conclusions:
London 21st April 2005.
The undersigned were present at the international Aero Industry Conference on Contaminated Air Protection Air Safety & Cabin Air Quality, held in London 20 - 21st April 2005.
We wish to bring to the URGENT attention of Government, Aviation Regulators and the Airline and Aerospace industry the following conclusions, distilled from the conference.
There IS a workplace problem resulting in chronic and acute illness amongst flight crew (both pilots and cabin crew).
The workplace in which these illnesses are being induced IS the aircraft cabin environment.
This, we conclude IS resulting in significant flight safety issues, in addition to unacceptable flight crew personnel health implications.
Further, we are concerned the PASSENGERS may also be suffering from similar symptoms to those exhibited by flight crew.
We URGENTLY call upon Government, Industry and Regulators to work in partnership with cabin environmental medical and analyst sopecialists and representatives from flight crew unions to analyse, quantify and remedy the cabin air quality problems that WE HAVE IDENTIFIED EXIST. Exactly which part of the above is so difficult to understand?
QED.
DB
