Dioxins in a sentence

Burning vinyl chloride can also produce dioxins, which are known to cause cancer, infertility, Type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease and immune disorders.

Coun Williams also addressed the health fears, highlighting the saga in which the council was prosecuted after 2,000 tonnes of ash from the old Byker incinerator was found to contain potentially cancer-causing dioxins.

Dioxins are exceedingly toxic, and their dangers include endocrine disruption, immune system damage, reproductive and developmental issues, and the potential for cancer.

Exposure to high levels of dioxins in the short term can yield “skin lesions, such as chloracne and patchy darkening of the skin, and altered liver function,” the W.H.O. notes.

The Health Department said it will continue to analyze the results to assess any potential risks from other contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Dioxins and others.

Dioxins can be produced in harmful quantities during burning.

During the Dec. 14 meeting, commissioners agreed that the final report include information they received from scientists about the enduring toxicity of dioxins sprayed on the grounds where reservists train.

More dioxins are produced in a burn barrel as compared to large incinerators, because of low oxygen and lower temperature.

Dioxins, for example, which are one of the harmful pollutants that sparked the original lawsuit, are not allowed to exceed 7.2 parts per billion.

Jamili added that the company commissions a third party laboratory annually to test air and stock samples which will be sent to Singapore and US for testing of dioxins and furans, known as human carcinogens.

This is scarier than you think because dioxins are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones, and may cause cancer.

The study showed high levels of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls in the eggs sold in markets.

Triclosan-generated dioxins were found in lakes throughout Minnesota as well as the Mississippi River.

Bottom line, the charts and graphs they so delicately and elegantly minimized were a forthright enumeration of the residual lead, arsenic, dioxins and PCBs they are leaving us.

Known as dioxins and furans, these toxic chemicals are normally found in very small amounts in the environment.

Since electrical wires are almost invariably encased in PVC, which contains 57 per cent chlorine, the act of burning produces deadly dioxins.

The problem of air borne pollutants (dioxins, pm2.5s etc) impact on the environment is limited by the quality controls of the incineration process.

About 28 of the former U.S. military bases in Vietnam where the herbicides were stored and loaded onto airplanes may still have high level of dioxins in the soil, posing a health threat to the surrounding communities.

Dioxins main PVC produces HCl upon combustion almost quantitatively related to its chlorine content.

Dioxins, rather than Agent Orange itself, have long-term cancer effects and for causing genetic damage leading to serious birth deformities.