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Sandoz chemical spill

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Environmental disasters in EuropeFires in SwitzerlandHigh Rhine basinIndustrial fires and explosionsNovartisNovember 1986 events in EuropeUpper RhineWater pollution in Switzerland
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The Sandoz chemical spill was a major environmental disaster caused by a fire and its subsequent extinguishing at Sandoz agrochemical storehouse in the Schweizerhalle industrial complex, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, on 1 November 1986, which released toxic agrochemicals into the air and resulted in tons of pollutants entering the Rhine river, turning it red.The chemicals caused a massive mortality of wildlife downstream, killing, among other animals, a large proportion of the European eel population in the Rhine, although the situation subsequently recovered within a couple of years.

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