Food is the main route of exposure to dioxin

Master Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh - Vietnam Public Health Association said that after the war, food was the main route of exposure to dioxin. However, high-risk foods are currently consumed quite commonly in the locality.

Pathways to dioxin exposure.(Photo: VnMedia)

Recent studies by local and international scientists have shown that dioxin levels in soil, mud, some foods, milk and blood samples of some local people live at the sites. Hot dioxin around Bien Hoa Airport and Da Nang Airport is still alarmingly high.

People living in these dioxin hotspots have been facing health risks due to exposure to dioxins that exist in the environment, especially due to consumption of farmed food in polluted areas.High-risk farming foods such as pumpkins, carrots, fatty meats, crush suits, freshwater fish .

However, the study of Vietnam Public Health Association and the Dong Nai Public Health Association provinces, Da Nang conducted in 2007 and 2009 in two wards near Bien Hoa Airport and four wards near Da Nang Airport for However, although living in dioxin contaminated areas is very heavy, only a small percentage of people have proper and adequate awareness about dioxin and dioxin exposure prevention.

Currently less than one third of people apply preventive measures and most of them apply ineffective preventive measures.For example, people cook food thoroughly, but pure dioxin is only decomposed at temperatures above 800 celsius, while dioxin in food decomposes at a higher temperature.

76.9 million liters of herbicides (of which 49.3 million liters of Agent Orange) were sprayed on the Vietnamese environment by the US military during the war, are and will continue to threaten health and life. living of people living in dioxin contaminated areas.Many former US airports and military bases such as Bien Hoa Airport, Da Nang Airport, and Phu Cat Airport etc. were used as a gathering place for herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand with a number of battles. another translation.As a result, a large number of dioxin-containing herbicides are absorbed into the ground, causing serious dioxin contamination in the airport and surrounding areas.