In 2007, the EPA detected the highest level of dioxin ever discovered in the country's rivers or lakes in waterways near Dow's global headquarters.
Inside the building a fine layer of soot covers everything, samples of which have turned up high levels of dioxin and other dangerous substances.
The police seized 700 more head of cattle from farms around Naples after tests showed abnormally high levels of dioxin in both the animals and the soil.
In Italy, inspectors found high levels of dioxin present in the mozzarella di bufalo produced in Campania, the region which includes Naples.
Two years ago, a Japanese study found dangerously high levels of dioxin in the soil and large amounts of heavy metals in the metabolism of children who work in the dump here.
Karel Pinxten, the Belgian agriculture minister, and Marcel Colla, health minister, resigned after failing to alert the public for five weeks after high levels of dioxin were confirmed by scientific tests.
The government authorised the sale of chicken, pork, beef and dairy products from farms that have not been proved to have used feed contaminated in January with very high levels of dioxin from a Flemish fat-rendering plan.
BERLIN — The German agriculture minister presented proposals Friday aimed at tightening controls on the production of livestock feed following a scandal in which high levels of dioxin were found in poultry and pork products.
There are growing fears that earlier official assurances that the contaminated fat was distributed for only a short period at the end of January may have been unduly optimistic, and that some of the pigs found to have high levels of dioxin may have come from farms which had not previously been identified as having used the feed.
In the town of Bien Hoa, a former storage depot for Agent Orange and the site of a large spill in 1970, American researchers recently found that 95% of the people they tested had abnormally high levels of dioxin, which has links with cancer, birth defects and liver damage.
