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Dioxin Another Day
EPA should reassess dioxin risk, science panel says |
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12 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Dioxin Another Day EPA should reassess dioxin risk, science panel says The U.S. EPA may be overestimating the cancer-causing risk of the chemical dioxin at very low doses, and should crunch the numbers in new ways before setting a cleanup standard, says a research council from the National Academy of Sciences. The EPA published a draft report on dioxin in 2003 indicating that the level of dioxin exposure ... |
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| Topics: National Academy of Sciences, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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