Re: chicken-a-la-dioxin...what on earth is "dioxin-contaminated motor oil"???

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

Used motor oil?  Remember Times Beach?
Carl Larkins
-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell, Jon <Campbell@rational.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 7:10 AM
Subject: chicken-a-la-dioxin...what on earth is "dioxin-contaminated
motor oil"???


Hi, folks,

     Sorry I haven't been too active on the list in recent weeks; I'm
tied
up in anti-genetic-engineering stuff (our old friend Monsanto up to no
good
again). More on that later.

     The Washington Post today featured an article about
dioxin-contaminated
chickens in Belgium, with the following explanation:

Health officials in Belgium believe that the feed manufacturer had used
a
batch of animal and vegetable oils, routinely added to the pellet
mixtures
fed to chickens, that had been laced with dioxin-contaminated motor
oils.
The full article is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-06/03/138l-060399-idx.h
tml

Anyone know what on earth they are talking about? I've never heard of
dioxin-contaminated motor oils...

Thanks
Jon Campbell