Like denying a paternity suit when the baby looks just like you, US Navy BRAC Environmental Coordinator Derek J. Robinson issued a statement published by the San Francisco Public Press in an article authored by award winning investigative journalist Chris Roberts, Toxic Metals Found in Shipyard Neighbors:
“The Navy conducts its ongoing clean-up efforts while simultaneously ensuring continued public safety…High levels of toxic elements could be explained by medical history, diet, immune status, genetics and hobbies, where they live, their occupation, place of work and other environmental factors.” https://sfpublicpress.org/news/2020–05/toxic-metals-found-in-shipyard-neighbors-but-source-still-unknown
The Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program is funded by the Packard Foundation and licensed by the Medical Board of California to offer comprehensive medical evaluations and urinary toxicology screenings using mass spectrometry for workers and residents within a one mile radius of the federal Superfund site at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. All urine tox screenings conducted, since the launch of HP Biomonitoring in January of 2019, have detected one or more elements in toxic concentrations documented to be present at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
Robinson’s denial of the findings of shipyard soil elements in toxic concentrations in 30 residents and workers within a one mile radius of the federal Superfund site is like denying a paternity suit…when the DNA test is a match! All chemicals detected to date — using a simple urine toxicology test analyzed by mass spectrometry - are documented by the Navy’s Parcel A Record of Decision to be present in Parcel A soils or by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as having been used by scientists of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratories (NRDL) at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
