The term "dioxin" is commonly used to refer to a family of chemicals that share chemical structures and characteristics. These compounds include polychlorinated ...

It contained dioxin, which is one of the most toxic chemicals known to man and has been linked to increased rates of cancers and birth defects. Vietnam says several million people have been ...

The debate about the human health effects of dioxin continues, even as the levels of dioxin measured in people have continued to decline from their peak 30 to 40 years ago. Increasingly, scientific ...

Aims: To describe the long term mortality experience of a cohort of 2187 male chemical production workers previously exposed to substantial levels of dioxin. Methods: Vital status for a previously ...

3 School of Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan 4 Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan Objectives Dioxin ...

On August 22, the Paris Court of Appeal rejected the lawsuit filed by Nga against the US chemical corporations that supplied AO/dioxin for the US army to use during the war in Vietnam. Talking to the ...

Andrew Sweetman receives funding from Defra/Environment Agency. Toxic synthetic chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were banned more than 40 years ago but still threaten human health ...

POPs are a set of toxic chemicals that are persistent in the environment and able to last for several years before breaking down (UNEP/GPA 2006a). POPs circulate globally and chemicals released in one ...