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City staff say air tests found trace chemical but levels far below health thresholds after neighborhood odor reports
Summary
Iowa City staff and the Climate Action Commission briefed councilors on June 16 about air‑quality testing related to neighborhood odor complaints; tests detected trace amounts of a chemical described as tooling but at parts‑per‑billion levels the city said are far below known human‑health thresholds and not from Procter & Gamble.
Iowa City staff told the council on June 16 that air‑quality testing carried out after neighborhood odor complaints identified a chemical described in the report as "tooling," but at concentrations several orders of magnitude below levels known to harm human health.
City staff thanked the Climate Action Commission and the climate action coordinator for preparing the memo in the council packet and said the state Department of Natural Resources and…
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