Seveso
Americannoun
noun
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The so-called "Seveso" sites include plants that manufacture hazardous materials for missiles and rockets.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Because the preservative contains dioxin, a substance related to the highly toxic chemical that has made the Italian town of Seveso uninhabitable, state officials banned sales of PCP and quarantined suspect cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then the birth rate in Seveso has dropped sharply.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years after, the core of Seveso is dead The streets today are still sealed behind a high fence of yellow plastic panels, like a Berlin Wall of environmental quarantine.
From Time Magazine Archive
After reading about the Seveso incident, however, Paul Reutershan, a veteran who was suffering from cancer of the colon, filed suit in 1977.
From Time Magazine Archive
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