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. 1994 Jan;102(Suppl 1):135–147. doi: 10.1289/ehp.94102s1135

Chlorinated and brominated dioxins and dibenzofurans in human tissue following exposure.

A Schecter 1, J J Ryan 1, Y Masuda 1, P Brandt-Rauf 1, J Constable 1, D C Hoang 1, C D Le 1, T Q Hoang 1, T N Nguyen 1, H P Pham 1
PMCID: PMC1566911  PMID: 8187703

Abstract

With substantial improvements in analytic techniques over the past decade, it has become possible to measure polychlorinated dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in human tissue in a congener-specific fashion down to the low parts per trillion level. This paper reviews findings using these new techniques from a number of recent medical and environmental case studies. These studies include those of workers exposed to a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) transformer fire in the United States, German chemical workers exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) while cleaning up after an explosion, workers at a municipal incinerator in New York City, a chemist exposed to brominated and chlorinated dioxins, U.S. veterans and also Vietnamese civilians exposed to Agent Orange contaminated with TCDD in Vietnam, and victims of the polychlorinated dibenzofuran and PCB contaminated rice oil (Yusho) incident in Japan.

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