Re: Dioxins in Belgian butter - Chicken and meat - French raw milk cheeses

["Jon Campbell" <jon@cqs.com>]

Heather,

      You are absolutely right. Dioxin bioaccumulation is at levels in all
meat, whether Belgian or not, with dangerous levels of dioxin. The 1994 EPA
Dioxin Reassessment made that clear. 300 times the daily "acceptable" dose
in a single hamburger for typical US beef.

      See http://www.cqs.com/edioxin.htm

Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Heather <hk3219@ark.ship.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Dioxins in Belgian butter - Chicken and meat - French raw milk
cheeses


>hello,
>
>while my comment won't be worth much, i felt like giving my two cents.
>it is beneficial for humans to not consume any animal products anyway,
>one reason being bioaccumulation of chemicals like dioxin in them.
>i think focusing on issues of complete nonvoluntary exposure to dioxins
>is more important. thanks.
>
>Heather
>
>
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>On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Emmanuel de Broux wrote:
>
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> The Belgian government had decided, a few days ago, to forbid the sale of
>> Belgian butter (min. 82 percent fat) in Belgium because of its too high
>> dioxin content. Surprisingly, cheese (45 percent fat typ.) sale could be
>> persued. Several countries have then decided to forbid Belgian butter
imports.
>>
>> There is something hypocritical about all this. There is dioxins in milks
>> collected in the Netherlands, in Belgium, in France and most probably in
>> other countries too. This is a fact known since several years but it is
>> totally ignored by the Belgian Press. Butter made with these milks also
>> contains dioxins.
>>
>> So, Belgium is considered by the European Union "experts" as the only
>> country to be blamed for this. I guess that commercial afterthoughts are
>> not absent here.
>>
>> In Belgium, the situation is still chaotic for what concerns chicken,
pork
>> and beef meat. But it is not the only country where poor practices in the
>> production of animal food have been discovered. In fact, an article in
the
>> French satiric newspaper published last Wednesday, Le Canard Enchainé,
>> reports horrifying practices having taken place in France. The matching
>> article published by the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique is attached
>> (sorry, it is in French).
>>
>> That article also reports that listeria has been found in French raw goat
>> milk cheese. Considering that listeria is much more dangerous than
dioxins,
>> in the short term anyway, we still wait in Belgium for a reaction by the
EU.
>>
>> Best regards.
>