June 8, 2004 in City

2002 field smoke study encouraging

Karen Dorn Steele Staff writer

PULLMAN – Volunteers exposed in 2002 to field smoke from burning wheat stubble at pollution levels lower than in the recent past showed no adverse health effects, a new study has found.

Researchers from the University of Washington and Washington State University released their $500,000 study Monday in Pullman and Spokane before an audience of wheat industry officials, state regulators, journalists and clean-air activists.

They warned their study of health impacts on 33 Pullman subjects with mild to moderate asthma had limitations – including that all the people studied were young adults in their 20s and did not include children or vulnerable …

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