dioxins

I consider it no small irony that the first syllable of the word dioxins sounds like die: So potent is this group of more than 100 cancer-causing industrial chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency is currently considering setting the "safe" daily level for human exposure at seven-tenths of a picogram per kilogram of body weight.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins? 2010

I consider it no small irony that the first syllable of the word dioxins sounds like die: So potent is this group of more than 100 cancer-causing industrial chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency is currently considering setting the "safe" daily level for human exposure at seven-tenths of a picogram per kilogram of body weight.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins? 2010

But a friend just told me that the worst toxins are something called dioxins, and there's nothing I can really do to avoid them.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins? 2010

But plants don't typically absorb dioxins, which is why researchers have found lower levels of the pollutant in the breast milk of vegetarian mothers, compared with those who ate a meat-intensive diet.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins? 2010

But a friend just told me that the worst toxins are something called dioxins, and there's nothing I can really do to avoid them.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins? 2010

But plants don't typically absorb dioxins, which is why researchers have found lower levels of the pollutant in the breast milk of vegetarian mothers, compared with those who ate a meat-intensive diet.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Help! Am I Doomed By Dioxins? 2010

~ Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls -study -- "More girls than boys are born in some Canadian communities because airborne pollutants called dioxins can alter normal sex ratios, even if the source of the pollution is many kilometers away, researchers say."

Speedlinking 10/18/07 William Harryman 2007

A separate and unrelated concern involves chemicals called dioxins.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

Over the past decade chemical toxins called dioxins were found in bakery products, meat, cheese, poultry and eggs in various European countries, and pathogenic bacteria such as

Forbes.com: News Henry Miller 2011

Over the past decade chemical toxins called dioxins were found in bakery products, meat, cheese, poultry and eggs in various European countries, and pathogenic bacteria such as

Forbes.com: News Henry Miller 2011