The Nation - News from April 17, 1986

A nursing American infant will receive 18 times the recommended lifetime dose of cancer-causing dioxins within the first year of life, a study reported. Most cows’ milk, in comparison, has only a trace of the dioxins found in a nursing mother’s milk, said Dr. Arnold Schector of the New York Medical Center in his report during an American Chemical Society conference in New York. The report that human breast milk is laced with dioxins comes three years after another report that Americans everywhere have undesirable levels of dioxin in their bodies.