These extremely toxic chemicals are associated with cancer of the stomach, sinus lining, liver, and lymph system. Chlorine-bleached and rayon-containing products, such as some conventional tampons, may contain trace amounts. The main dietary culprits are animal fat, according to the FDA.

A group of persistent, toxic substances, including furans that are produced in trace amounts when unbleached pulp is exposed to elemental chlorine. Term used to describe the families of chemicals know [..]

A group of generally toxic organic compounds that may be formed as a result of incomplete combustion (as may occur in incineration of compounds containing chlorine).  RCRA regulations require a higher destruction and removal efficiency (DRE) for dioxins and related furans (99.9999 percent) burned in incinerators than the DRE required for most other [..]

Chemical byproducts created in the production of pesticides, hazardous to human health.

Chlorinated Hydrocarbons containing heteroatoms that are present as contaminants of Herbicides. Dioxins are carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic. They have been banned from use by the FDA.

Highly toxic chemicals that can be formed in small amounts from forest fires or volcanoes but more often are produced unintentionally from industrial activities and from incinerating waste and burning [..]

Chlorinated hydrocarbons containing heteroatoms that are present as contaminants of herbicides. Dioxins are carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic. They have been banned from use by the FDA.

Family of 75 different toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons formed as by-products in chemical reactions involving chlorine and hydrocarbons, usually at high temperatures. The "premier" and [..]

Organic chemical byproducts of industrial processes; considered highly toxic environmental pollutants due to their effects on the immune and endocrine systems and on encouraging tumor growth.

Dioxins are often formed during the chlorination process at paper mills and waste and drinking water treatment plants; they are also released into the air by municipal solid waste and industrial incinerators. Dioxins accumulate in fatty tissues of animals, and have been linked to skin disease, liver damage and cancer in humans.

Poisonous chemical by-products from the manufacture of certain herbicides and bactericides. Dispersion

Chemical contaminants that are created during combustion processes such as incineration, forest fires, backyard burning, and more. Dioxins can cause harm to humans and can be ingested or inhaled, then stored in fatty tissue.

are a structurally closely related group of hydrophobic chemicals, which are persistent and bioaccumulating, and some of them extremely toxic; Dioxins are polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs). The closely related dibenzofurans (PCDFs) have dioxin-like properties

A group of generally toxic organic compounds that may be formed as a result of incomplete combustion (as may occur in incineration of compounds containing chlorine). RCRA regulations require a higher [..]

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