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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 13 December 1997

From David Bradley

Cambridge

Gollub’s idea of inducing lactation before pregnancy to clear a putative
mother’s body of dioxins seems at first like a good idea. But aside from the
fact that dioxin in the quantities involved is a much hyped hazard, especially
when compared with our everyday exposure to countless “natural” poisons, there
seems to be one aspect of his milking scheme that he has overlooked. Where will
he discard this sea of “poisoned” milk? Not in my backyard, I hope.

Issue no. 2112 published 13 December 1997

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