Scientists from the…Aberystwyth University have called for further studies of pollution in northern Kosovo, after discovering high levels of lead contamination in the area. The team...also recommend that the Cesmin Lug and Osterode refugee camps...home to Roma families...be closed ‘as a matter of urgency’ because of the ‘very poor soil and air quality’…Despite repeated calls to close the camps and numerous investigations into the toxic, lead-contaminated environment, around 600 Roma still live there…The report was the first to look at the origin of the pollution…concluding that the Zvecan Smelter, which has not been operational since the 1999 conflict, and the nearby waste dumps, were the most likely source of lead pollution…The report called for the facility not to be reopened…[T]he land will not be safe to grow vegetables or fruit. Professor Mark Macklin told Balkan Insight that the issue of food safety should be looked at in detail in the whole area surrounding the smelter.