Residents of a community in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, expressed concern to health officials over possible exposures to hazardous substances from nearby chemical industries. The community is located ...

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Multivariate statistical methods and neuronal networks were used to evaluate the concentration dioxin patterns of a large data set (407 samples) in order to identify the dioxin sources of contaminated ...

The major sources of dioxins (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs)) in the environment in Japan have ...

Many studies show that dietary consumption of fish is the greatest contributor to dioxin exposure of humans in Japan. To establish a link between ocean contamination and human exposure to dioxins in ...

Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K., BT9 5AG Article Views are the ...

Pentachlorphenol (PCP) was widely used as a biocide and insecticide for wood preservation. Chlorinated dioxins and furans (2,3,7,8-substituted PCDD and PCDF congeners) were inadvertent byproducts of ...

The incidence of the most common form of liver cancer (75-85%), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), has increased since the 1970s. Internationally, liver cancer is the second most common cause of ...

A 12 month study to quantify significant dioxin sources in Ireland has been commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The project, which will be carried out by consultants Dames & ...

Your coverage of the EPA’s dioxin reassessment (Sept. 14) missed an important part of the story: There are good technologies to control dioxin. I represent one of the few industries that are currently ...

When it comes to dioxin, although we need to limit our animal-fat consumption, we also need go beyond beef and start looking at the burger box, too (Girls Urged To Limit Dioxin-Laced Foods -- July 3).

The Bush administration became embroiled in another environmental controversy Friday with a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency not to regulate sewage sludge containing dioxin, a toxic ...