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Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin
An anonymous reader writes "The Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings beginning today to review a proposed safe exposure limit for dioxin, a known carcinogen and endocrine disruptor produced as a common industrial byproduct. It's all but impossible to avoid exposure to dioxin. Women exposed to it pass it on to fetuses in the womb, and both breast milk and formula have been shown to contain the stuff. Research done by the Environmental Working Group has shown that a nursing infant ingests an amount 77 times higher than what the EPA has proposed as safe exposure. Adults are exposed to 1,200 times more dioxin than the EPA suggests is safe, mostly through eating meat, dairy, and shellfish."
Yeah that's what it means genius, it's fucking nutritional supplement.
On the other hand, it could be a contributor to the fact that people living in industrial countries are much more likely to get cancer.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/canc-a26.shtml
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LOL
Enjoy looking like a fucking raisin, you dipshit. Dioxin is nasty shit but nothing to be afraid of until you've absorbed enough of it to look like ass, but by then the CEOs will have bailed out to the bahamas with their golden parachutes while the California Raisins wring whats left of their hands over what to do about it. And there'll probably STILL be Republitards screaming in Youtube videos to LEAVE THAT COMPANY ALONE!!!1! when people suggest that the companies that poisoned them be held responsible.
In the end the entire country will end up one massive superfund site paid for by your tax dollars because corporations cried about breaking eggs to make omeletes, then skipped town without paying the check for the eggs.
micropenis
Teehee.