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Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin

Posted by kdawson on from the adults-got-no-walk-in-the-park-either dept.

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."

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  1. Screw dioxin by by+(1706743) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the dihydrogen monoxide that's killing us.

    1. Re:Screw dioxin by w0mprat · · Score: 4, Funny

      I tried to cut down, now it's the C2H5OH that's killing me.

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    2. Re:Screw dioxin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      What proof do you have of that?

  2. Screw Dioxin! by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about... 5 fun things you can do with your baby's placenta!!?!?!?!?!? (from the same site as this "article"). I suppose any excuse to beat up on "evil industry" will always fly on Slashdot.
        Next thing you know there'll be the usual litany of +5 insightfuls about how "big media" (led by Catie Couric) regularly pumps out pro-insecticide propaganda. No I'm not joking.. the regular scare pieces about anything that might be remotely toxic are the product of "big pesticide" to bore us to death with obviously untrue hysteria so that we accidentally let them get away with poisoning all of us!

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  3. Re:Great by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    But if they change the formula for calculating safe dosages, they can show fewer bars on the display and people will at least feel better about their dioxin exposure.

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  4. Re:Great by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if they change the formula for calculating safe dosages, they can show fewer bars on the display and people will at least feel better about their dioxin exposure.

    It's also recommended that infants hold breasts with their left hand.

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  5. Re:Great by oldspewey · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are you, a Japanese porn director?

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