Tuesday, July 17, 2012

DIOXIN


January 2011.
 
There is our new pollution not only food but also the environment in the proportions that are not yet visible now, but can easily be only the top of the iceberg ...(Relates to the dioxin found in fodder in Germany...)

Only when it will be discovered ever since there is a practice of stuffing biodiesel waste into animal fodder, we will know the proportions of pollution: it is known that livestock manure ends in soil, and the water, which lodgings are cleaned, it probably ended up in the nearby river water resources .. .When you are reading it, water pollution are already flowing across Europe ...

But we are not the angels. We have our 'private' dioxin, and would not believe how close you are to him almost every day ...

Who still remembers the fire at "Puto" incinerator that loaded us with the heavy toxins that have evolved by heat decomposition of waste deposited in it, and we still do not know what was burnt there either the proportions of poisoning Zagreb's citizens and all the water basin of river Sava, and the all users water from a source Mala Mlaka ...

Maybe there are reports on the amount of heavy metals in soil and water pollution around the plants, the quantity of compounds of condensed aromatic nuclei, all in order one more toxic than the other, the analysis may have indeed been made, but the Zagreb's audience never had honor to get familiar with such a report, and the public is entitled to know because clean environment is every citizen of this city concern and in his primary interest, this report should be of primary concern to everyone ...

And just when one might have thought, almost, thank God, no more plants, dawn in the press reports that the rehabilitation of "Puto" incinerator is in full swing, the August 2nd 2008, Novi List daily from Rijeka ...

So the average citizen of this city has to ask, for God's sake, so who is the one who is crazy!?

"Puto" is ought not to be build up at the location where he was, and now when its gone, the burden of its harmful heritage will remain at elevated concentrations of dioxins in the soil, consequently the water, wherever they reached out, carried by winds, particles and burning fumes of all what was set on fire in “Puto”, but do we know what was all there? ..


Of course all products of the thermic combustion carried around by wind, landed after all in the drinking water sources from the Mala Mlaka, of course we drank it, cooked lunches with this water, it is taken bath and shower in it, we washed our clothes in it ... None of us was reported on the concentration, ppm's, picogramms ... ...

Even if we are totally ignorant, not knowing anything about dioxin and how its affects our health, the face of the previous Ukrainian President Yushchenko, poisoned 2004, during his election campaign, we still remember how this nice man has looked like when dioxin devastating effect turn his face in almost unrecognizing shape, but the effect on what we have NOT seen, his internal organs, were far worse affected, his chances to get cancer are very high and only a miracle can save his health.

The biggest problem EACH incinerator is the residue of combustion, the ashes from burnt waste in t incinerator, which contains all of the worst known and unknown toxic substances inside of it, at this nowadays level of technology development can not make this residual 'cake' harmless ...

NO WAY AND BY NOT known method yet!

Even Vienna incinerator, known as the most modern and safest (?), do not treat the residue of the ashes but it is stored for the future, in the hope that future generations will be able to finally solve the problem.

But will they be able, we can not know that for sure ...

Indeed, just before the outbreak of the last war, in Dalmatia, someone has, I no longer remember who, wanted to raise garbage incinerator, like, great, gets heat from waste, hazardous ash residue, should be 'neutralized' by special volcanic stones?!

Too bad that this single gift of our Mother Earth does not exsist, there is no volcano whose stones do neutralize the toxic incinerator ashes, and those stones are so real as the stones from the stomach of the wolf in the Brothers Grimms tale about the wolf and the seven baby goats because this technology the neutralizing volcanic rock effect on incinerator ashes has its base in reality, just as Grimm's fairy tale!

A pure coincidence is that the same day when I read the article in daily Novi List,Rijeka,Croatia the RTL news at noon 'Punkt 12' revealed the fact that Germany, especially the province of Bavaria, Baden-Würtenberg, Mecklenburg Vorpommern and Türingen drink water contaminated with uranium, whose concentration exceeds 10 micrograms per liter of water. Mr. Herman Kruse, toxicologist from the Kiel University, said that such water intake in the bodies of 40-50 year olds (the premise is that the drinking water and otherwise coming into contact with such a water through a period of 40-50 years) leads to severe kidney disease and damage of vital organs ...

Such water is quite unsuitable for the preparation of baby food, because the metabolism in the babies is slow due to undeveloped inner organs ...

Although the stated limit of 2 micrograms of uranium per liter is the official limit concentration, in the case of radioactive elements, it is better to be zero limit value in the water....

They say that special filters can remove uranium from the water, but they are expensive ... I wish it were true ...

"Foodwatch" calls out the authorities responsible for the negligence and irresponsibility for the health of the nation ...

This only seems to have no connection with dioxin from the "Puto" in our water.But all thrown onto the ground or get into / on it, washed by the rain gets into groundwater. Uranus was in Germany a natural ingredient of the rocks, leaching out of in the drinking water...

Dioxin in our water right after the fire of "Puto"is unnatural ingredient got into soil by smoke and soot particles from incinerators. So it is not enough just to remove the ashes, but the layer of soil all around incinerators, (it should be done immediately after the fire) because dioxin is the same as the infamous "Orange B" from the Vietnam War, which were total herbicide, defoliant of the tropical rainforest to find the positions of the Vietnamese troops, and where the land is bare, the grass is not growing, it certainly has dioxin to be blamed for!

At what concentration?

Let us the report announce revealed- if its done!

One should know that this affair with dioxin in animal feed is neither the first nor the only one.
The same affair, occurred in Belgium in May 1999.

Personal memories I kept on the to explosion of the dioxin container in Seveso, Italy 1976, when the city was evacuated, and bulldozers were taken off the layers of contaminated land ... The explosion at this factory ICMESA caused directly exposure the 187 factory workers and ... It would be interesting to see whether the study followed a deterioration of their health ...

So, pollution the food or fodder by dioxin was not rare and unfortunately we can speak now only about how many dioxin some food contains. For inst:

-2004 milk was polluted by dioxin in the Netherlands

-2006 fodder in the Netherlands

-2007 EC warning on guar gum from India polluted by dioxin because treated with pesticide PCP ( penta chloro phenol) that is out of use, but by product there is dioxin

-2008 Ireland recals pork meat because of consisting 200 x more dioxin than its legal limit
Just in the year of the ambitious revitalizing our domestic Borgia 'Puto', the world got familiar with the detection of dioxins in the Naples Mozzarella and Irish pork, in 2008.Not even a distant memory ...

-January 2011 Germany announced findings dioxin in fodder


There is a map of the European hot spots pollution by dioxin, find it and look at it, it's good to know before planning future summer holiday. Map is done 1991/92 and its updated regularly and already at the first sight is visible, terribly high concentrations of dioxins in the Black Sea coast and Bulgaria Romania ... Bay of Biscay, 'armpit' of Tunisia ...

There is also contamination of food by dioxin, statistics released by the EPA, USA, and has stated that there are the 'major suppliers' dioxin into our food that enters our body, as a percentage:

                      beef and beef products to     40 percent
                      and milk products        to     25 percent
                      chicken and products up to  13 percent
                      pork and products over        12 percent
                      fish and products up to          8 percent
                      eggs and products above       4 percent


 

Now consider how you will create your menu, to put in it the possibly less polluted food.
 
But do not try to test your food on dioxin, because testing of one sample costs enormous US$ 1700!


WHO/FAO Codex Alimentaris Commission established “Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Dioxin and Dioxin like PCB Contamination in Foods and Feed”.

Stockholm “Convention on Persistant Organic Pollutant” 2004, brought in power measures to reduce POP=persistant organic pollutants, released into environment.

 

Contrary to knowledge of our media, dioxin is not formed by burning only, so he created as a by product, especially when burning PVC from which more and more the windows and doors are done, so the burning of PVC in the open space in the USA has already banned more than 20 years ...

Dioxins are generated by chemical synthesis of raw materials, and the first synthesis was made 1872. Unfortunately, knowledge of its pernicious effects, came only much later following bad experience ...
Dioxin is by product in paper and textile industry, releases by forests wild fires and also by volcanic eruptions...

This are not only worthless words, this aromatic diether polychlorid belongs in the first group of carcinogens, according to the classification of International Agency for Research of Cancer, IARC .

Half-life is around 8 years, means that he needs 16 years to complete decomposition, but unfortunately entered into the human body is bioaccumulative!

And we have one in Slovenia, the Krsko celuloze factory, basin upstream Sava river and waste waters are running to Sava river ...Unfortunately Sava river is due to summer drought almost totally dried out, you can get from one river bank to another by walking over...

So we can not speak about dilution of dioxin in Sava river waters...

How many times have you ignored the fact that newly purchased shirt, underwear, etc. should be washed before use ... Warning is precisely because of that ... Unfortunately, dioxin was found in tampons, and they can not be washed ... but can be produced from unbleached cotton as well as the coffee filters are made from unbleached paper pulp for the same reason, the presence of dioxins in bleached filter paper ...


HOW IT AFFECTS HUMAN BODY

USA dioxin limit is 0, 001 picogramms / liter.

Dioxin is the oncogene, teratogen, mutagen ... It causes cancer, reduces the immune defense system, caused changes and damages to the DNA, causes disrupting hormone production, damaging the embryos ...

Dioxin causes testicular cancer tripled in the last 50 years ...

Causes of breast cancer in women, also tripled in the last 50 years, and endometriosis.

Dioxin is one of the main culprits that the level of sperm capable of fertilization, in the past 30 years dropped by 50 percent, and the worst of all,it is still falling ...

Dioxin affects the liver functions, nervous system, endocrine system
 
Human reproduction: dioxin destroys sperm, through the mothers placenta gets into the fetus where damages fetus genes, causes testicular and breast cancer, etc. ..
It accumulates in the fatty tissue.


Safely removal of dioxin is possible in incinerators but the temperature must be at the level 850-1000 degrees of Celzius.

Until we learn to handle technologies, in the safe way, it would be better that we do not accept hazardous technologies.

Because as a Japanese scientific said, science is a double-edged sword:

one blade paves the progress of mankind and brings the prosperity, by the other blade cuts out own roots!


They say that we are a country with the highest morbidity from cancer. Dioxin is one of the mosaic particle in it.



For the audience who wants TO KNOW MORE:

there are the ten prohibited POPs called TEN DIRTY banned by Stockholm Convention of 2004:


                                                1.Dioxin
                                                2.Aldrin
                                                3.DDT
                                                4.Chlordane
                                                5.Dieldrin
                                                7.Heptachlor
                                                8.Hexa-chloro-benzene
                                                9.Mirex
                                              10.Toxaphene

only exception is DDT,  ITS ALLOWED TO BE RELEASED IN ENVIRONMENT ONLY FOR CONTROL OF MOSQITOS!

Of concern are 3 industrial chemicals:

        1. PCB - poly chlorinated biphenyl
             2.  PCDDs – poly chlorinated dibenzo dioxin

             3.  PCDF – poly chlorinated dibenzo furan

PCBs are also prohibited and will be phased out until 2025. POPs by products PCDDs and PCDFs are under monitoring to reduce release as possibly more.

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