Re: Dioxins in Yugoslavia

["Carl Larkins" <carllark@olypen.com>]

    nO FLAK HERE. NONEED TO DUCK OR DODGE BULLETS
There may be some contribtion from PCB' s spilled from damaged
electrical transformers.

Carl Larkins
-----Original Message-----
From: Emmanuel de Broux <emmanuel.debroux@ping.be>
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Date: Friday, May 28, 1999 12:58 AM
Subject: Dioxins in Yugoslavia


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.
Tel + fax: international access code + 32 83 21 54 30