***NEWS FLASH*** Everything causes cancer! Enjoy Life and fire up the B-B-Q! ----- Original Message ----- From: "=Mark" <mstevens@exit109.com> To: "Chile-Heads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [CH] info > 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 > >