Health Effects of Dioxins Pollution / 环境与健康杂志

ABSTRACT

Dioxins were a family of chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons mainly coming from combustion process with the presence of a chlorine donor and the chlorine-treatment process in chemical industries. Dioxins had been proved to be one of the most toxic materials in environment in recent studies ,and to present carcinogenesis ,teratogenesis ,immunotoxicity,reproductive toxicity and endocrine toxicity ect. With the development of the industrialization ,the dioxins pollution tended to become more and more serious ,which had severely threatened human health. This paper presented a review on the molecular structure,physicochemical characteristics ,pollution sources and degradation ways in environment and impacts of dioxins on human health.