Toxins - more questions than answers?

From Frank Parry, following Bill Godfrey's Blog on Medical Checks and Dioxin:
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A quote from the Bay of Plenty Times in mid April 08
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"Dioxin Service To Start"
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"People exposed to Dioxin will soon be able to get help from a specialist health support service.
-----Following an independent report, the Government has instructed the Health Ministry to work with District Health Boards (DHBs) to create the the service, which is to be implemented by July 1, 08."

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I have retained the item from the Bay Times, but did not record the published date. This may have some bearing on the omission of Dioxin tests as raised by Bill Godfrey. -
Best Wishes, Frank

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Maybe not. This extract comes from www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00638.htm:

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"The Ministry of Health, the Taranaki District Health Board, and health service providers will be working together to implement the service by 1 July 2008. The Ministry will be working with district health boards in other parts of the country so that similar services will be available for eligible [Ivon Watkins Dow, Paritutu] people who now live elsewhere.
-----"Access to the support service would be through individual application to the Ministry of Health and demonstrating individuals had lived or worked in the area during times of high exposure. Anyone who lived, worked or went to school within 1200 metres downwind (to the east or south) of the plant for one year between 1962 and 1969 or for five years between 1970 and 1987 is eligible for the service."

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Visit that link, or read a different take at www.stuff.co.nz/4483213a20475.html