Dioxins

There has been longstanding concern over the possibility of health effects, including cancer and birth defects, due to dioxins.

Answers to questions about dioxins, including on the effects of dioxin exposure and the health support service for people who have been exposed.

This guide is for health professionals and others who have questions about the health effects of dioxins, and includes historic exposure incidents.

Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research completed a 3-year study for Te Whatu Ora measuring the concentration of pollutants in blood.

This survey is the third to measure levels of persistent organic pollutants in the breast milk of first-time mothers aged 20 to 30.

The report investigating historical exposures to dioxin among residents of the New Plymouth suburb of Paritutu was released in 2005.

Find out about support for former sawmill workers who were exposed to pentachlorophenol at sawmills in the 1950s to 1980s.

Other key agencies involved with dioxins, including workplace exposure, contaminated places, and Vietnam veterans.