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A serving of Ben & Jerry's ice cream provides 20 times that amount of 
dioxin.  I think I'll take that rib...

=Mark

At 06:18 PM 8/7/2003 +1000, Lukasz Speer wrote:
>Barbecue cancer warning
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3106039.stm
>
>A health hazard?
>Barbecues poison the air with toxins and could cause cancer, research 
>suggests.
>
>This amount of cooking was found to release 12-22 nannograms of dioxins 
>into the
>atmosphere.
>
>The researchers also found that the average concentrations of dioxins in the
>vicinity of the barbecue ranged from 0.6 to 0.7 nannograms per cubic metre 
>- up to
>seven times higher than the level authorised for public incinerators at 
>the point of
>discharge from the chimney.
>Snip

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