Irene Hogben's four year old daughter Kerry at play. Doctors blame Kerry’s terminal health condition on her mother’s earlier exposure to the toxic chemical 2,4,5-T while working at a farm chemicals distributor. Feb 1980.

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Irene Hogben worked as a typist for a farm chemicals disributor in Kent. She said, "The chemicals were packed in 50kg sacks and they would often split, letting dirty white powder blow about in the yard. It smelt atrocious. The men unloading the lorries would come into the office covered in the powder. I was told the chemicals wern't poisonous, only they could be explosive'. After leaving the firm Mrs Hogben became pregnant. her daughter Kerry was born in May 1976 with a large hole in her heart, she had no pulmonary artery and her lungs, liver and kidney were all too small. Doctors blame 2,4,5-T and give Kerry no chance of surviving. Feb 1980.

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