On 10 July 1976, a chemical reactor near Milan released a cloud containing dioxin over residential areas. The Seveso disaster ...

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On a warm April evening, 90 people crowded into the cafeteria of Redwood Elementary School to meet with representatives of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control. The substance at issue was ...

EPA concludes that dioxin is “carcinogenic to humans” based on the following evidence (Reassessment, Part III, pp. 6-7 to 6-8): evidence from the occupational cohort studies that dioxin exposure ...

Agent Orange was used extensively during the Vietnam War to destroy vegetation. It contained dioxin, a highly toxic chemical.

It does seem a strange choice. Unprecedented, even - the recent confirmed poisoning of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko with dioxin appears to be the first recorded case of a human being ...

EPA on Thursday ordered Norfolk Southern to begin testing for dioxins, a family of toxic chemicals that cause cancer and various other ailments, at the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train crash.

Still, scientists can't tell where the chemical came from and who was ultimately behind the poisoning of Yushchenko, now the president of Ukraine. After Yushchenko fell seriously ill following a ...