Dioxin Resources

General Dioxin Resources

• Archived Consumer Factsheet on Dioxin and Drinking Water (pdf) 226K (Last updated May 2009)
• New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Hazardous Substance Fact Sheet: 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (pdf) 150K (Last updated Sep 2002)

• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  USDA, with its government partners FDA and EPA, conducts periodic monitoring surveys for dioxins in meat and poultry.
  • FDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Dioxin Monitoring Surveys (2008, 2013, 2018)
  • Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds In the U.S. Domestic Meat and Poultry Supply (Jun 2005; PDF Only)
  • Dioxins Releases Trend
  • Dioxins Research Publications
  • Dioxin-related activities - FDA Residue Chemistry
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • ​FDA's Chemical Contaminants: Dioxin & PCB's
  • Questions and answers about dioxin and food safety - Dioxin Related Activities (Feb 2012) (Joint FDA and EPA) is no longer available on the FDA website, see the Food Safety and Inspection Services Guidelines for the latest information on food safety.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Dioxins
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
  • 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin

In-Depth Dioxin Resources

• Real-Time Monitoring of Dioxins and Other Ambient Air Trace Organics
• Technologies for Monitoring & Measurement of Dioxin and Dioxin-like Compounds in Soil and Sediment (CAPE Technologies LLC, DFI; Dioxin/Furan Immunoassay Kit; PCB TEQ Immunoassay Kit)
• The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
  • 2,3,7,8 -Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD, "dioxin") (84-104)
    • Toxic Substances Portal - Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins (CDDs)
    • Toxic Substances Portal - Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
  • CDC - NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - 2,3,7,8-Tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin
  • Resúmenes de Salud Pública: Dibenzo-p-dioxin as policloradas (Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins [CDDs])

Dioxin and Human Consumption Resources

• Current Trends Update: Styrene, Dioxin, and 1,3-Butadiene in the Workplace  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR/CDC), April 06, 1984 / 33(13); 179-80.
• A Study To Evaluate The Levels Of Dioxin-Like Compounds In Dairy Feeds In The U.S.
• The Dioxin Crisis as Experiment To Determine Poultry-Related Campylobacter Enteritis, 2002. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8(1):19-22.
  https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0801.010129
• Serum Dioxin* in Vietnam-Era Veterans -- Preliminary Report MMWR/CDC, July 24, 1987 / 36(28); 470-5.
• Archived Technical Dioxin and Drinking Water Fact Sheets (pdf)  229K (Last updated May 2009)

Dioxin Strategies and Actions

• Compilation of European Commission on Dioxin and Health Data
• Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (Binational.net, an EPA and the Environmental Climate Change of Canada Collaboration)
  • 2014-2016 Great Lakes Binational Priorities for Science and Action (Last updated Mar 2014)
• Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemicals Covered by the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Program
• TRI Dioxin and Dioxin-like Compounds and TEQ Data Files: Calendar Years 2008-2018
• Dioxin and Dioxin-Like Compounds Toxic Equivalency Information
• United Nations Environmental Programme. Assessment of PCDD/PCDF Release Inventories (2011)
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
  • Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Releases of Dioxins, Furans and Other Unintentional POPs (pdf) 5.9 MB (2013 Final)
  • Standardized Toolkit for Indentification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases (2nd Edition) (pdf) 223K (2005 Update)
  • The new POPs under the Stockholm Convention
  • The 12 initial POPs under the Stockholm Convention