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Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Emitted in the atmosphere, dioxins and dioxin-like compounds tend to deposit on soil and water, therefore, they can contaminate the food chain (198, 199). The intake of dioxins from food has declined dramatically over the past 20 years (200). But it is human activity which has been primarily responsible for the generation of dioxins over the past two centuries. For example, in 1949, an explosion in a Monsanto chemical plant in West Virginia (USA) resulted in the exposure of workers to the dioxin-contaminated herbicide, 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (199). During the Vietnam war (1962–1973), Agent Orange, a dioxin-contaminated herbicide containing 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, was used as a defoliant in Vietnam to reduce enemy ground cover (198–199). Studies of the Ranch Hand cohort have revealed that American military exposures to Agent Orange were associated with an increased risk of cancers and diabetes (199).
Levels of PCDDs/PCDFs in waste incineration ash of some Jordanian hospitals using GC/MS
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2021
Sharif Arar, Mahmoud A. Alawi, Nisreen E. Al-Mikhi
The recent scheme for TEQ is the WHO-TEFs 2005 (Van den Berg et al.2006) developed by the WHO-ECEH (European Centre for Environment and Health of the World Health Organization). It is a TEF scheme that includes the 12 dioxin-like PCBs, which are similarly toxic as PCDD/PCDF and thus contributes to overall pollution by dioxins and dioxin-like compounds. This scheme list of TEF values was not used here since we did not monitor polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBS), where the 1,2,3,7,8 PeCDD TEF = 0.5 in I-TEQ and in WHO-TEFs = 1.
Dioxin and endometriosis: a new possible relation based on epigenetic theory
Published in Gynecological Endocrinology, 2020
Pierluigi Giampaolino, Luigi Della Corte, Virginia Foreste, Fabio Barra, Simone Ferrero, Giuseppe Bifulco
Almost every living creature has been exposed to dioxins or dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) and the first way that exposes people to dioxin is by eating food, in particular, animal products as dioxins are absorbed and stored in fat tissue [36].