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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.
> A study by the French environmental campaigning group Robin des Bois found that a
> typical two-hour barbecue can release the same level of dioxins as up to 220,000
> cigarettes.
> 
> Dioxins are a group of chemicals known to increase the likelihood of cancer.
> 
> The figures were based on grilling four large steaks, four turkey cuts and eight
> large sausages.
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
So THAT is the reason all those folks who cooked on wood stoves and open 
fires hundred years ago, are all dead now!! I always wondered! :-) Doug 
on Vancouver Island BC

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