Dioxin Advisories and Guidance

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Latest News

• Backgrounder: FSIS Dioxin Survey for Meat and Poultry (May 2002)

General and Scientific Information

• Questions and Answers About Dioxins (Updated October 2003)
  Prepared by the Interagency Working Group on Dioxin
  http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/dioxinqa.html

• Dioxin and Related Compounds - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  http://www.epa.gov/ncea/dioxin.htm

• Factsheet: Dioxin Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/dioxin.htm

• "Monitoring Dioxins" from the January 2001 issue of Agricultural Research magazine, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
  http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jan01/dioxin0101.htm 

(These are only examples of many general reference materials available.  These are not FSIS materials, and you will be exiting the FSIS Web site.)

Dioxin and Imports from the European Union (1999)

Statements by FSIS

• Statement by Thomas J. Billy (August 16, 1999)
• Statement by Thomas J. Billy (August 2, 1999)
• Statement by Thomas J. Billy (July 20, 1999)
• Statement by Associate Administrator Margaret Glavin (July 2, 1999)
• Statement by Administrator Thomas Billy (June 18, 1999)
• Statement by Administrator Tom Billy (June 11, 1999)
• Statement by Acting Administrator Mark Mina (June 3, 1999)

Statements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• Pesticides, Metals & Chemical Contaminants Page http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/pestadd.html

Belgian Federal Government On line

• Contamination of animal feedstuffs with dioxin
   http://dioxin.fgov.be/pa/ena_frame.htm  

Dioxin in Livestock, Poultry, and Eggs: Guidance Documents, 1997-98

• Memorandum from Mark Mina to Plant Managers (January 8, 1998)
• Memorandum from Mark Mina to Owners and Custodians of Poultry, Livestock and Eggs (September 17, 1997)
• Guidance for Reprocessing of Broilers Exposed to Dioxin-Contaminated Feed (July 13, 1997)
• Memorandum from Mark Mina to Industry Groups (July 10, 1997)
• Memorandum from Mark Mina to District Managers (July 9, 1997)
• Advisory to Owners and Custodians of Poultry, Livestock and Eggs (July 8, 1997)