The Environmental Protection Agency in the US are due to release new guidelines that will set limits on the safe exposure of dioxins to the US consumers. The decision to produce new regulations has put the farmers and ranchers as well as the US food industry into a dilemma. The mere mention of dioxin conjures up visions of cancer and birth defects. Dioxin became a household word nearly 30 years ago when Times Beach, MO, was evacuated and quarantined due to high levels of dioxin. Many illnesses, miscarriages and animal deaths were attributed to the toxin. At the time, dioxin was called “the most toxic chemical synthesised by man". Read more ...
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