Research on Toxicity of Dioxin and Its Health Impact on Human Health / 环境与健康杂志

ABSTRACT

Dioxin,as a kind of strong carcinogenic substance,a kind of environment hormone with tremendous harm,can get into human body through food chain and accumulate in fat of animals and persons,forming serious threat to human health. Dioxin has been included in the list of monitoring objects in food part of the global environment monitoring program as a new environmental pollutant by World Health Organization. In this paper,the toxicity,the source of dioxin and its impact on human health and prevention and control measures are introduced.