Chemical alarm in Trentino. Civil protection for citizens: “Stay at home”

Rovereto, September 2, 2020 – Stay at home. It is the cautionary advice of the Civil protection to residents of Rovereto, in Trentino, due to a lost of pharmaceutical plant Sandoz, that caused the release of gaseous substances into the atmosphere: it would be potassium clavulanate, a component used for the production of antibiotics. According to what was learned from the Province, the alarm reached the Rovereto firefighters at 9.24 am by a citizen, who saw the cloud come out of the production plant. The operations of the special teams of the Firefighters with the core Nbcr and Appa, the provincial environmental protection agency.

The president of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Maurizio Fugatti, after the emergency meeting called this morning, made it known that “the situation is not serious and is under control. The wind is blowing south, so we have informed the prefectures of Verona me BresciaSanitary and environmental surveillance activities are reportedly being carried out during a meeting with the press. At the moment, no citizen has shown symptoms of exposure to the gas, while the cloud dissolves quickly. The provincial environmental protection agency has activated the inspection team and controls are being carried out at the monitoring stations of South Rovereto, Airplane me Isera understand the atmospheric concentration of the gas.