Obesity and Metabolic Comorbidities: Environmental Diseases?

Table 1

Examples of dioxin contamination incidents.

Year	Country	Type of accident	Cause
1960–1975	Vietnam	Contamination by a defoliant, agent orange	Contaminated agent orange
1976	Italy (Seveso)	Contamination by a cloud of toxic chemicals of an area of 15 square kilometers	Accident at a chemical factory
1998	Germany	Contamination of milk	Contaminated citrus pulp pellet from Brazil
1999	Belgium	Contamination of poultry and eggs	Animal feed contaminated with illegally disposed PCB-based waste industrial oil
2004	The Netherlands	Contamination of milk	Contaminated clay in animal feed
2007	Europe	Contamination of guar gum (food additive)	Guar gum from India contaminated by pentachlorophenol that contains dioxins as further contamination
2008	Ireland	Contamination of pork meat and products	Contaminated animal feed