Re: dioxin testing in milk

["Catalano, Dennis" <catalad@wdni.com>]

  Hi Tal
  
  I am a project manager for a dioxin laboratory.  We would be able to
  provide you with analytical capabilities for dioxin testing on milk and
  meat.  The price for this testing is high due to the instrumentation
  required to produce low detection limits being so expensive.  If you
  need price information, contact me at:
  
  catalad@wdni.com
  
  Dennis Catalano
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  From: Jon Campbell
  To: Multiple recipients of list
  Subject: Re: dioxin testing in milk
  Date: Saturday, August 09, 1997 5:10PM
  
   Hello, Tal
  
  This is Jon Campbell, and I'm a dioxin activist from
  Acton, MA.
  
  Testing for dioxin is slightly difficult and very
  expensive, unfortunately,
  because the molecule is so non-reactive and the
  quantities of it
  are so small. There is both a popular book and two
  reports that
  have listed the amounts of dioxin in various foods.
  
  The popular book is "Dying From Dioxin" by Lois Gibbs.
  It
  provides an excellent summary of  the important
  findings of
  the two dioxin reports, with excerpts of tables of
  concentrations
  in food, plus a layman's description of where dioxin
  comes
  from. One report is: USEPA, 1994, Estimating Exposure
  to
  Dioxin-Like Compounds, EPA/600/6-88/005C-a,b, & c -
  external draft,
  June. This report is part of the EPA "1994 Dioxin
  Reassement"
  The other report is by Arnold Schecter, et al, "Cogener
  specific
  levels of dioxins and dibenzofurans in U.S. food..." an
  article
  in the journal "Environmental Health
  Perspectives"#102:pgs
  962-966.
  
  The EPA report is huge (in three volumes), and there
  are
  three companion volumes on health assessment.
  I believe the EPA has not released the report publicly
  because it would cause a panic: the amount in dioxin
  in an ordinary 100-gram hamburger is 300 times the
  "acceptable" amount listed in the Health Assessment.
  
  I hope this is useful to you. Also, check out my
  Website at
  http://www.cqs.com for more information
  
  Regards,
  Jon Campbell
  
   -----Original Message-----
  From: talia l javid <taliaj@juno.com>
  To: Multiple recipients of list
  <dioxin-l@essential.org>
  Date: Saturday, August 09, 1997 6:31 PM
  Subject: dioxin testing in milk
  
  
  
  i am doing a report/experiments on dioxin for school.
  is there any way,
  or is it impossible to test dioxin amounts in different
  brands of milk
  (or meat or anything)?  any information on this would
  help me big time!
  my e-mail address is  taliaj@juno.com
  thanks!!!
  tal