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Dioxin toxicity poses significant risks to human health. Dioxin is the name for 210 chemical compounds that are highly persistent and pervasive in the environment. Dioxin is an unintentionally produced by-product of industrial processes including waste and medical incineration, chemical, pesticide and herbicide manufacturing and use, and pulp and paper bleaching. Dioxin is produced through the burning of chlorine-based compounds and hydrocarbons.
Dioxin toxicity poses a significant threat to human health as it is found in the air, water, land, products, and food that we come into contact with every day. Ninety-six percent of exposure to dioxin toxicity occurs by way of foods that humans consume. Dioxin toxicity builds up in the body when humans consume high-fat foods, especially red meats, dairy products, fish, and other meats.
The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the average human has a dioxin body burden of 25 parts per trillion. This is at or close to the level at which dioxin is considered toxic and can potentially cause adverse health problems. It is estimated that approximately ten percent of the population has a dioxin body burden that is three times the average amount.
People with the highest risk of dioxin toxicity levels are estimated to have a one in one-hundred to one in one-thousand chance of developing harmful health problems. Infants and children, people who consume high fat diets, and people who work or dwell near contaminated environments are most likely to suffer the ill effects of dioxin toxicity.
Dioxin toxicity has been well established as a carcinogen. This means that dioxin toxicity in the body has the potential to facilitate the development of cancer throughout the body. TCCD is a dioxin with the highest risk of causing cancer. This chemical is known to cause cancer and facilitate the development of non-related tumors. Dioxin toxicity can cause cancer of the lungs, liver, kidney, breast, bone marrow, and tissues.
Dioxin toxicity can also lead to reproductive, developmental, immune system, and hormonal damage. Dioxin toxicity can cause birth defects, diabetes, skin conditions, excessive hair growth, endometriosis, learning disabilities, and a number of other health problems.
Dioxin toxicity is such a danger because it is so prevalent in the environment and because the body takes a long time to break dioxin down. The half life of dioxin in the human body is estimated at seven years, meaning that it takes seven years for the body to rid itself of half of the dioxin present in its system.
The only other way to eradicate dioxin from the body is its transmission to a fetus or infant through the placenta or breast milk. While nursing, a baby receives ninety-five percent of the dioxin present in breast milk. This is one of the reasons that dioxin toxicity poses such a significant threat to infants and children.
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