dioxin

For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.

Mmmm... ice cream.. triple-choc, caramel swirl, dioxin... dioxin?? Finland dairy goods producer Valio is withdrawing ice cream from stores as imported guar gum used in production was detected to have high levels of dioxin. The contamination issue isn't confined to Finland or just ice cream.