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Science 10 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5494, p. 1071
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5494.1071a
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TOXICOLOGY:
Panel Backs EPA Dioxin Assessment

Jocelyn Kaiser

Outside scientists last week gave a thumbs-up to a long-awaited Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report finding that dioxin may be causing health effects at levels close to background exposures. The favorable reaction comes as a relief to the EPA, whose 1994 draft dioxin report was criticized sharply by a similar outside panel for ignoring scientific uncertainties.

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