High Levels of Dioxin Found in Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

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High Levels of Dioxin Found in Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

 

By Cat Lazaroff

 

MONTEREY, California, August 17, 2000 (ENS) - Ben & Jerry’s, a popular gourmet

brand of ice cream, offers more than tasty flavors. The frozen treat also serves

up a hefty helping of dioxins, a group of suspected carcinogens, according to a

study released today at the Dioxins 2000 conference in Monterey. But the problem

is not limited to any one brand of ice cream - dioxin is a problem in all dairy

products.

 

All ice cream has some dioxin contamination because of the milk fat it contains.

 

The study shows that the level of dioxin in a sample serving of one variety of

Ben & Jerry's brand ice cream is about 2,200 times greater than the level of

dioxin allowed in wastewater discharged into San Francisco Bay from the Tosco

oil refinery.

 

More: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2000/2000L-08-17-06.html

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