- Cancer risk from dioxins among people eating large amounts of fatty meats and dairy products.

- Dioxin exposure linked to a variety of health problems, including diabetes, developmental problems and irregularities in the immune system.

- Children's intake of dioxins is greater than those of adults.

- Dioxins are 10 times more dangerous than thought before.

- 11 per cent of all cancer deaths are due to dioxins.

- Incineration main source of dioxins.

- Burning trash in back yards is one of the largest unaddressed dioxin sources.