Is it true that dogs in Dzerzhinsk became blue because of chemicals?

In February on the Internet appeared Photos of stray dogs blue. They were made in the Dzerzhinsk area, cities in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The version immediately arose: the animals became blue due to the fact that they got into chemical waste. We checked if it was true.

The version that the dogs could turn blue due to the waste of chemicals was one of the first to suggest by Andrei Mislian, the bankruptcy trustee of the Dzerzhinskoye Origstex joint-stock company, near the enterprise of which animals were noticed.

In the past, the plant specialized in the production of acrylic glass and synical acid. According to the head of the organization, there are many abandoned buildings on the territory.

“Homeless dogs run around the territory. Maybe in one of the buildings they found the remnants of some kind of chemistry-copper sulfate, for example, were redeemed in it. A few years ago I heard, noticed that some dogs were painted in some unnatural colors. They also found something, no one controls them. I cannot bear the costs of catching homeless animals and sterilization of them, ” - told Mishovets RIA "Novosti".

The version that animals could get dirty in some chemical waste (for example, in a copper sulfate) spread in social networks And Media. News about the victims allegedly from chemicals of dogs appeared even in English -speaking Media.

The Dzerzhinskoye Orgsteklo company is really located in Dzerzhinsk. It is in the liquidation stage since 2015, and on its territory there can be many abandoned buildings. At the same time, Dzerzhinsk periodically enters the lists of the most polluted places: in Russia (from the point of view of the quality of the air and the amount of waste in 2017) and in world (in 2013). In the territories of abandoned enterprises or nearby, chemical waste dumps are also often found. They were found at least every year over the past three years: in 2018, 2019 And 2020 years. These are only those cases that the media became known about.

February 16 Rosprirodnadzor laid out publications on social networks in which the incident confirmed and announced the investigation that had begun (February 12 It has begun examination). Prior to this, the animals were caught by the City Hall of Dzerzhinsk, they were examined by veterinarians. They They saidthat the condition of the dogs is satisfactory, but on the territory of the enterprise the source of paint was not found and it is possible that the pigment got inside. At the same time, the city hall noted that nothing threatens the health of animals. Rosprirodnadzor in his statement declaredthat chemicals could really remain on the territory, "which caused the blue for dogs."

On February 15, veterinarians of the Zozizhzh-NN clinic, who were engaged in inspecting dogs, toldthat their tests are normal, including biochemistry. And on February 18 it became It is knownthat they were not found on their wool, not chemicals and not copper sulfate, but a dye called the “Berlin azure”.

“The dye does not represent harm to health and danger, which is confirmed by the inspection and conducted by Zozizhdaty-NN LLC by blood and feces of animals,”- Claimed In the commentary of RBC, the director of the Department of Information Policy and Interaction with the Media of the Administration of Dzerzhinsk Anastasia Govorova.

At the same time, the dye can Apply in the staining of plexiglass, in the production of which an abandoned enterprise specialized. Probably, it was in it that animals could get dirty. In a strict sense, the dye itself is not a “chemical waste”, but a chemically produced pigment.

At the same time, unlike substances such as, for example, copper sulfate, the connection of the pigment of the Berlin azure is generally safe. Even him Use In medicine - for example, as an antidote with poisoning with salts of tallia and cesium. The connection of the Berlin azure prevents the absorption of radioactive nuclides contained in them. Based on the Berlin azure, they even created a drug that Used In the rehabilitation of agricultural land after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the substance also acted as a sorbent of radioactive nuclides.

Despite this, the pigment itself remains the chemical. Therefore, the assertion that the dogs became blue because of chemicals is true. Another thing is that these chemicals are not dangerous for animal health, as most authors of the statement suggest.

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