Re: Agent Orage still in Nam

[Guest guest]

Dioxin in Vietnam? If that's supposed to be shocking, then I have a bigger

shock for you. The USA is contaminated with dioxin, too. It's all in our

food supply and as I understand it, dairy products carry the worst

contamination.

Betsy

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> By TINI TRAN

> Associated Press Writer

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> August 11, 2003, 11:52 AM EDT

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> HANOI, Vietnam -- Decades after the wartime defoliant Agent Orange

> was sprayed over Vietnam, toxic chemicals continue to contaminate

> Vietnamese people and the food they eat, according to a new study

> released Monday.

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> The finding, published in the August issue of the Journal of

> Occupation and Environmental Medicine, found that six out of 16 food

> samples taken last year from around the southern city of Bien Hoa, a

> former U.S. air base, had levels of dioxin approaching those found

> during the Vietnam War.

>

> Dioxin was found in ducks, chickens, a bottom-dwelling fish and a

> toad. Samples of pork and beef showed negligible levels.

>

> " This study is one of many that shows Agent Orange is not history.

> Dioxin contamination is still found in high levels in some

> Vietnamese, as high as when spraying was going on, " said lead

> researcher Dr. Arnold Schecter, of the University of Texas School of

> Public Health in Dallas.

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