Dioxins in Yugoslavia

[Emmanuel de Broux <emmanuel.debroux@ping.be>]

Hello, listers.

There is something strange about the environmental damages in Yougoslavia:
nobody publishes any figures. Considering dioxins (and furans and PCBs), I
assume Belgrade had managed to measure the concentration of these
pollutants in the air, soil and, more important, in cow milk before the
bombings. That would be the result of routine environmental management.
Comparing these values to those obtained today would help to assess damages.

One thing is sure: the pollution resulting from the setting on fire of
numerous houses in Kosovo by the Serbs is producing dioxins, most probably
more than, I guess, the explosives carried by NATO bombs. I do not know
whether these explosives contains chlorine under one form of the other. I
only know that dioxins are not formed if chlorine (or bromine) is not
available.

Note: this is a dispassionate message, so no flak, please.

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