dioxins in English

noun
1
a highly toxic compound produced as a byproduct in some manufacturing processes, notably herbicide production and paper bleaching. It is a serious and persistent environmental pollutant.
Activists also charge that inappropriate operation of incinerators creates not only air pollution but also toxic dioxin .

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1. • polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (dioxins) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (furans) — from selected activities with no quantitative threshold.

2. 19 Highly toxic dioxins were released into the air.

3. Due to the omnipresence of dioxins, all people have background exposure and a certain level of dioxins in the body, leading to the so-called body burden.

4. 13 However modern incinerators give off less dioxins thanks to tougher design standards.

5. And those dolphin parts had a huge load of PCBs, dioxins and heavy metals.

6. Agent Orange contains dioxins that are known to cause cancer and damage genes .

7. Dioxins accumulate in the sediment of rivers and oceans where they are ingested by fish.

8. The 29 dioxin-like Congeners comprise 7 dioxins, 10 furans, and 12 PCBs

9. Dioxins are known to cause cancer and to affect the immune and reproductive system of animals.

10. Monitoring the activity of an industrial catalyser used to decompose nitrogen oxides and dioxins

11. This strategy was developed by the dioxins/furans Workgroup, Burn Barrel Subgroup and was finalized in February 2004.

12. - Dioxins (PCDD/F and dioxin-like PCBs) in artificially dried feed materials (hay, alfalfa meal, etc.).

13. Basic requirements to be met by analytical procedure for dioxins (PCDD/PCDFs) and dioxin-like PCBs

14. Chlorine bleaching of pulp for paper releases dioxins into rivers and soil, further polluting the environment.

15. amending Annexes I and II to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels for arsenic, fluorine, lead, mercury, endosulfan, dioxins, Ambrosia spp., diclazuril and lasalocid A sodium and action thresholds for dioxins

16. Dioxins from the process may be discharged in factory effluent and some traces remain in the paper goods themselves.

17. In addition, the cooling process is accompanied by the production of acidic gases, dioxins and other harmful substances.

18. Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.

19. Plants that bleach wood pulp for paper making may generate chloroform, dioxins (including 2,3,7,8-TCDD), furans, phenols and chemical oxygen demand (COD).

20. The quantitative chemical analysis of dioxins requires sophisticated methods that are available only in a limited number of laboratories around the world.

21. The advice may be viewed by clicking on the Dioxins and Furans, the PCBs, and the Mercury links listed above and in the Topics Box.

22. Counteracting the Effects of Dioxins Through Diet 5 (100%) 13 votes Phytonutrients in certain plant foods may block the toxic effects of industrial pollutants, like …

23. Instead of getting sick from dioxins and related compounds including some polychlorinated biphenyls, Atlantic tomcod harmlessly store these poisons in fat, a new study finds.

24. The Valencian Government has merely issued an environmental impact statement, but this was alarmingly sketchy because, for example, it completely failed to mention heavy metals, dioxins, and furans.

25. The Irish Government is insisting that a network of waste incinerators, some for toxic waste, be created in my country, thus introducing an explosion of PAHs into our water, air, soil, plants and into the cells of Irish citizens where the benzenes and dioxins can wreak havoc.

26. Gaps in activities that needed to be quickly filled in: the chemical composition of PM, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, dioxins, mercury by sectors, semi-volatile compounds that drove secondary aerosol formation, methodologies to calculate non-inventoried emissions, historical sets of emissions and information related to emissions in other media;