Toxic Effects Associated with Dioxin

• cancer
• chloracne
• birth defects
• developmental toxicity
• reproductive toxicity
• immunotoxicity
• allergies
• hormonal changes
• decreased testosterone
• diabetes
• altered enzyme action
• endometriosis
• decreased testicle size
• slow learning
• decreased birth weight
• decreased growth
• delayed development

Did You Know?

Dioxin can be toxic in tiny amounts (1 part dioxin in 70 quadrillion parts water).

Dioxin can increase the toxicity of other pollutants.*

Dioxin persists for an extremely long time in the environment and the body.

Dioxin concentrates drastically in the food chain.

There is no beneficial use for dioxin except in dioxin testing.

*For example, scientists found sufficient evidence that dioxin-like chemicals increase each other's toxicity to warrant a "toxicity equivalence" approach that adds the potencies of these 28 chemicals.