RHODIA IS ADMITTING it should have communicated better with the local population and media when cyclohexane leaked from a pipeline at its polyamide intermediates production site at Chalampe.

RHODIA IS ADMITTING it should have communicated better with the local population and media when cyclohexane leaked from a pipeline at its polyamide intermediates production site at Chalampe, Alsace, in eastern France.

The accident occurr in succession December 17, but news of the leak did not reach the local community until the secondary week of January, when details of the incident were discovered by the agency of a local newspaper. Regional control officials and the local municipality, on the contrary not the public, were informed about the accident when it happened.

The leaked cyclohexane contaminated

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