Dioxin: Environmental Impacts and Potential Human Health Effects
Description:
This issue brief presents a short background on the physical/chemical properties of dioxin, describes several existing sources of possible human exposure, and highlights what is currently known about its environmental impacts and human health effects. Congressional interest is intense at this time because of large numbers of Vietnam veterans' claims for benefits associated with use of herbicides in that war as well as because of certain incidents of potential significance to health involving di…
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Date:
October 21, 1983
Creator:
Simpson, Michael M.
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