RE: dioxin exposure through food

[Emmanuel de Broux <edebroux@tornado.be>]

Willi Nolan, at 12:01 17.07.96 -0400, you wrote:

>I would like to see a MORE concise list of dioxin and PCB content in 
>various foods, meats, fish, legumes and other vegetables, organic and 
>non-organic on the dioxin-l pages.  And,  I'd like to pass this around to 
>other mothers in my circle.

Here are a few figures I have about cow milk in the Southern part of Belgium :

(1) Province of Hainaut : avge 2.9 pg TEG/g of fat

        Close to the following municipal solid waste incinerators :

        Thumaide 11 pg TEQ/g fat
        Ittre : 5.5    
        Aiseau 10.9

(2) Province of Liege : avge 1.3

        Close to Liege MSW incinerator : 2.8

(3) Province of Namur : 1.9 - no MSW incinerator

(4) Province of Luxemburg : 1.1 - no MSW incinerator

Besides MSW incinerators, hospital waste incinerators would come second in
Belgium as source of dioxins in Belgium, while they would be first in the
States.

Breastmilk in Belgium contained 39.5 pg TEQ/g fat. (US : 16.6). This figure
is decreasing in Belgium. Source : WHO.

Best regards, Manu.
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Emmanuel de Broux, rue du Sacre-Coeur 7, B-5590 Leignon, Belgium