Queensland government biosecurity workers were exposed to a carcinogenic, gene-altering chemical for an extended period of 6 months after its use was banned.
The exposure to the highly toxic fumigant, named EDB occured in the mid 1990s causing debilitating and serious illnesses over the past 2 decades.
One chronically ill former employee says the use of chemicals were in defiance of long-known risks and warnings from health authorities at the time, calling is ‘state-sanctioned poisoning’.