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Choi Ye-yong, vice chairman of the Special Committee for Investigation of Social Disasters (Chief), announced his resignation on the 9th. This is in protest of the approval of the National Assembly of a bill by the standing committee to exclude the investigation. from the facts of the disinfectant humidifier disaster.
Vice President Choi announced his intention to resign at a press conference announcing the results of an investigation into the alleged reduction and concealment of the humidifier disinfectant disaster between Oxyrekit Benckiser (RB) and Kim & Chang, held at the Post Tower in Jung-gu , Seoul.
The Ahn-Government Committee of the Political Affairs Commission of the National Assembly reviewed the revised bill of the ‘Special Law on Social Disasters’ and extended the period of its activities by one year and six months. In this process, investigating the facts of the humidifying sanitizer disaster was left out of the body’s job. In the future, work related to humidifiers at the SAC will be limited to victim relief, system improvement and full reporting. This amendment was approved by the judicial commission on the morning of the day after the plenary session of the political affairs commission the day before.
In fact, only about 30% of the 30 ex officio investigation cases and application cases investigated by the Office of Humidifier Disinfectant Disaster Investigation are reported to have been completed to the completion level.
At the conference the same day, the committee announced the results of the investigation that OxyRB, a manufacturer of ‘Oxy Sprout Humidifier On-Demand’, which caused massive damage to the humidifier sanitizer, formed a team at the headquarters level and responded systematically .
OxyRB requested inhalation toxicity tests from national and American laboratories in India, such as Seoul National University and KCL (Korea Institute of Building and Environment) from 2011 to 2014. Among them, the US WIL Research Center. The US and India’s IIBAT Research Center were suspended by OxyRB. The facts were recently identified in the investigation by the president of the Supreme Court.
Regarding the large law firm Kim & Jang, which was in charge of legal advice for OxyRB, the committee said: “The attorneys in charge attend the report on the results of inhalation toxicity tests conducted by the National University of Seoul, KCL, WIL and IIBAT, or they check the test report several times before the final report is released.
“In the process of responding to the humidifier disinfectant catastrophe, OxyRB conducted many inhalation toxicity tests and confirmed lung damage,” said Kim Yoo-jeong, head of the first research department. .
Vice Chairman Choi said: “We are considering measures to hold Oxy UK headquarters officials, foreign executives and Kim & Chang lawyers accountable.”
The Kim & Chang law firm explained the results of the chiefs of staff’s investigation: “I have not been involved in domestic and foreign experiments or the preparation of reports related to humidifying disinfectants. I have proceeded to defense work based on the report written by experts “.
Reporter Lee Hae-jun [email protected]
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