RE: "Chicken-a-la-mode" and Japanese experience

["Campbell, Jon" <Campbell@Rational.Com>]

Koshi,

    Now THAT is a reasonable hypothesis of what happened. The oil
manufacturer is a supplier of vegetable and animal oils. It seems very
unlikely that they would *purposely* put dioxin-contaminated waste oil into
the stream. But if they had a coolant/hydraulic oil accident, and then
didn't want to "waste" the batch, and perhaps (through stupidity) not
realize how toxic the contaminant really is, that would explain it.

    Even Russell Bliss, the polluter at Times Beach, did not fully realize
what he was dealing with. He contaminated himself, his friends' horse
arenas, etc., with the waste oil he was disposing of. He knew it was toxic,
but all motor oil is toxic...

Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Kohshi-TAKA [mailto:kohshi-t@kk.iij4u.or.jp]
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 11:46 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L
Subject: Re:"Chicken-a-la-mode" and Japanese experience


Dear folks,

I am also surprising at the used motor oil with dioxin.

We have a similar tragedy (not dioxin but PCB) in Japan almost 30 years ago.


In that time, a manufacturer of vegetable oil had contaminated the oil at
condensing process by the leakage of cooling media. The cooling media
contained
PCBs. We called this case "KANEMI oil pollution case".

Is there any possibility of leakage at condensing process of oil
manufacturing
?

?'Ӭ ?P?u
TAKAHATA,Kohshi
kohshi-t@kk.iij4u.or.jp