Contaminated Bread Lejeune and Cherry Point Report

Description

There has been considerable legal discussion regarding the contamination of water at Cherry Point originating from Camp Lejeune. Much of this discourse focuses on water buffaloes and other direct sources of water contamination. However, our report approaches the issue from a different and more alarming perspective.

Camp Lejeune provided various medical services to Cherry Point. For example, babies born at Camp Lejeune may have also resided at Cherry Point. Beyond medical services, our report reveals that bread, doughnuts, sinkers, and other baked goods were produced daily at Camp Lejeune and shipped to Cherry Point for consumption by its residents over many years. This routine shipment spread contamination, affecting even those who moved to Cherry Point. For instance, infants transitioning from milk formula to eating contaminated peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were exposed.  I was one of those kids!

The report thoroughly documents how bread was made with contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, the volume of shipments, and how Camp Lejeune was the sole supplier of bread products to Cherry Point. This spreads contamination further. The report includes in-depth analysis, photographs, and stories from the Camp Lejeune newspaper, demonstrating that one did not need to live at Camp Lejeune to be affected. It explores how this process was carried out and its implications.