Article: TINY TOWN DEMANDS JUSTICE IN DIOXIN POISONING

Article: EPA Links Dioxin To Cancer; Risk Estimate Raised Tenfold
The Washington Post;  May 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Studies have found that people all over the globe have some dioxin in their bodies...nearly zero for many people--the findings suggest that dioxin already contributes...that the higher dioxin risks should not discourage people from eating nutritious...

Article: Diet, Dioxin Risk May Be Linked
AP Online;  May 17, 2000 ;     608 words ......cancer risk from dioxins may be greater than...but only among people who eat lots of...have found that people worldwide have at least some dioxin in their bodies...without meaning people should worry about dioxin at the dinner table, he said. ``People have trouble separating...

Article: Dioxin scare People anxiously wait for results, THE STAR
The Star (Jordan, Middle East);  July 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ......10 days since the dioxin scare was made public...mixed reactions from people all over the country...suspiciously might contain dioxin to laboratories...the reaction of people towards the issue...that most of the people know about the dioxin contamination but...

Article: U.S.: OFFICIALS ALLOW DIOXIN TO POISON HISTORICALLY BLACK TOWN
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to within 50 feet of people's homes. Dioxin compounds are a byproduct...returned and re-tested 22 people. They found that average dioxin levels had dropped slightly...not believe that the dioxin levels experienced by people in Mossville are high...

Article: U.S.: OFFICIALS ALLOW DIOXIN TO POISON HISTORICALLY BLACK TOWN.
Interpress Service;  July 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to within 50 feet of people's homes. Dioxin compounds are a byproduct...returned and re-tested 22 people. They found that average dioxin levels had dropped slightly...not believe that the dioxin levels experienced by people in Mossville are high...

Article: Dioxin confirmed as a human carcinogen.(Brief Article)
Science News;  May 15, 1999 ;     567 words ......000 times as much dioxin as other people. Such high exposures to dioxin in the workplace...the most potent dioxin. People who sustained high...he adds. Indeed, people's average blood concentrations of dioxin have fallen to a...

Article: A dose of dissent; dioxin re-examined.
The Economist (US);  March 16, 1991 ;     618 words ......induced fears that people may suffer a similar fate. Dioxin also featured in...evidence linking dioxin to any human affliction...skin disease, which people developed in Seveso...experiments reveal about dioxin's effects on people. Scientist cannot...

Article: EPA REASSESSES POLICY ON DIOXIN EXPOSURE RISK.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 15, 1991 ;     622 words ......review to develop a new formal opinion of the risks of dioxin. I don't want to prejudge the issue, but we are seeing new information on dioxin that suggests a lower risk assessment for dioxin should be applied, said EPA Administrator William K. Reilly...that ingesting more than .006 trillionths of a gram ...

Article: NSW; Residents demand Government and BHP reduce dioxin
AAP General News (Australia);  April 21, 1999 ;     477 words ......even low levels of exposure to dioxin have been associated with health...suppressed immune system. "The people of Port Kembla have had strange...Ruchel said a mere one gram of dioxin distributed equally among a million people would still be an unacceptable annual intake of dioxin. "That's ...

Article: Scientists Temper Views on Cancer-Causing Potential of Dioxin
The Washington Post;  May 31, 1990 ;     700+ words ......estimate of a safe daily dose of dioxin-one that officials believe...about 1 percent of the dose people actually receive. Although...industry into an expensive dioxin reduction program, and limited...scientists familiar with dioxin have become skeptical of...reduced their estimates of ...

Article: International Task Force Reports Progress in Addressing Impact of Dioxin in Vietnam
U.S. Newswire;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......expansion of services to people with disabilities...high- resolution dioxin testing lab. "Dioxin...greater numbers of people with disabilities. High resolution Dioxin Laboratory Committee...nature and extent of dioxin contamination in...the food chain to people in close ...

Article: Puzzling over a poison. (dioxin)
U.S. News & World Report;  April 6, 1992 ;     700+ words ......Unfortunately, we've had a very one-dimensional approach to dioxin's danger. Dioxin has spread well beyond its main industrial sources-paper...meat or dairy products. When researchers began studying dioxin in the early 1970s, however, they were puzzled by the...Infinitesimal quantities killed guinea ...

Article: The Effect of Dioxin on Vets
The Washington Post;  May 5, 1990 ;     228 words ......the EPA appears to be concerned about minute amounts of dioxin in our everyday lives, while the veterans' groups are...diseases and disabilities they believe are related to dioxin. Another irony is that the VA will recognize non-Hodgkin...a service-connected disability (without relating it to dioxin) ...

Article: Dioxin: Unsafe at Any Level
The Washington Post;  June 18, 1990 ;     314 words ...Is the dioxin debate described in the May 31 news story "Scientists Temper Views on Cancer-Causing Potential of Dioxin" really a matter of science, or is it about money? This...the-head-of-this-pin argument concerning quantities of dioxin that cause cancer will continue as long as the manufacturers...their ...