The work, proposed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and completed by Health Protection Scotland, was requested to help Scotland's environment watchdog improve the regulation of thermal treatment of waste facilities. The report looks at a range of previous studies on the health effects of incinerators concluding that due to many uncertainties it is difficult to be definitive about the effects.

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