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Article: Dioxin: A Universal Toxin -- Part 1.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 The Townsend Letter Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In issues #210 and #211 of the Townsend Letter this column dealt with some of the health and environmental risk factors associated with plastics. A discussion about the hazards of plastics would be incomplete without a follow-up discussion of dioxins.
Because plastic is relatively inexpensive to manufacture, more products are now being made out of plastic including children's toys, food containers, floor coverings, furnishings, auto parts, and thousands more items. Plastic is everywhere in the modern world.
Unfortunately, plastic products do not have a long survival rate. They are designed to last five to ten years and then be replaced by newer plastic ...