Local women were given special permission to abort abnormal pregnancies and large tracts of land were off limits. In the clean up operation eight inches of poisoned earth had to be scraped off the surface. Even minimal exposure to dioxine results in a brown stain discolouring the skin, indicating the onset of cancer. The Swiss chemical firm - ICMESA Hoffman-La Roche - responsible for the leakage paid out £100 billion for the environmental damage caused. Twenty years later a Committee of 11,000 members from Seveso are still lobbying the Swiss multinational to pay more compensation. When accused of bleeding the Swiss milkcow dry, the President of the group retaliates, 'Swiss cows came to shit in Italy'. The government prefers to ignore the disaster and has failed to conduct any investigation into the disaster's effects on public health. A local doctor admits in a shaky voice that he has never received any guidance from the authorities. Little has been done to deal with the consequences of an ecological disaster. (