| environmental health risk assessment of dioxin exposure through foods in a dioxin hot spot-bien hoa city, vietnam. | this study used the australian environmental health risk assessment framework to assess the human health risk of dioxin exposure through foods for local residents in two wards of bien hoa city, vietnam. these wards are known hot-spots for dioxin and a range of stakeholders from central government to local levels were involved in this process. publications on dioxin characteristics and toxicity were reviewed and dioxin concentrations in local soil, mud, foods, milk and blood samples were used as ... | 2010 | 20623031 |
| food as a source of dioxin exposure in the residents of bien hoa city, vietnam. | recently, elevated dioxin levels, over 5 parts per trillion (ppt) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (tcdd), from agent orange was reported in 95% of 43 selected residents of bien hoa city, a city in southern vietnam near a former air base used for agent orange-spraying missions. agent orange herbicide, contaminated with tcdd, was sprayed in vietnam between 1962 and 1971 primarily for use as a defoliant. typical blood tccd levels are 2 ppt in vietnamese, but levels are as high as 413 ppt in bie ... | 2003 | 12915779 |