Michigan’s PBB Disaster

IF 0.2 3区历史学 Q2 HISTORY

PUBLIC HISTORIAN Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.67

Brittany B. Fremion, Marian J. Matyn

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Abstract

In 1973, Michigan Chemical Company accidentally shipped a fire retardant (polybrominated biphenyl or PBB) in place of a nutritional supplement to a livestock feed mill, which resulted in one of the largest episodes of contamination in US history. Researchers estimate that eight million people were exposed to PBB. This report from the field explores the ways in which community members with public and academic partners documented and shared this history, finding new ways to commemorate environmental disasters. The evolving and collaborative nature of this work highlights the multiple and fluid forms commemoration can take, providing an example and rationale for how the PBB disaster and other large-scale contaminations might be commemorated.

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1973年，密歇根化学公司不小心将一种阻燃剂(多溴联苯或PBB)作为营养补充剂运送到一家牲畜饲料厂，这导致了美国历史上最大的污染事件之一。研究人员估计，有800万人接触过多氯联苯。这份来自实地的报告探讨了社区成员与公共和学术合作伙伴记录和分享这段历史的方式，找到了纪念环境灾难的新方法。这项工作的演变和协作性质突出了纪念活动可以采取的多种流动形式，为如何纪念多氯联苯灾难和其他大规模污染提供了一个例子和理由。

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