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Food contamination by PCBs and dioxins

In February 1999, a poisoning episode broke out in several poultry farms in Belgium. The Belgian authorities took immediate safeguards to protect public health and implemented a large-scale food-monitoring programme. Here we analyse the scale of the contamination and assess the likelihood of its adversely affecting the health of the general population.

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