FRANCE. - An independent environmental monitoring group says it has found high levels of cancer-causing dioxin in samples of French meat and is calling on the Government to ban rubbish incineration. The Paris based National Centre for Independent Information on Wastes said laboratory tests found alarming dioxin levels in beef steaks, ground beef and veal chops. The dioxin produced by burning rubbish falls on pasture-land, is taken up by grass and then stored in the fatty tissues of cattle that eat the grass.
-Reuter
Evening Post (Wellington),
26 May 1998