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...first area studied by the Commission was that of food chains. They concluded that dioxin, one of the impurities in the herbicide, is "exceedingly toxic, may be quite stable in the environment, and, being fat soluble, may be concentrated as it moves up the food chain into the human diet. Very rough calculations suggest that it is not impossible that significant amounts of dioxin are entering the Vietnamese diet...