Dow is associated with dioxin due to the company’s historical operations, including:
- the manufacture of trichlorophenol, pentachlorophenol, certain herbicides and certain other chlorinated products;
- studies of Dow employees;
- and the work of its scientists in understanding the potential health effects of dioxin and development of techniques to quantify the presence of dioxin and dioxin-like materials.
Although Dow has reduced its emissions of dioxins and furans to air and water by more than 85 percent since 1995, issues related to current manufacturing processes and historical dioxin and furan emissions continue to be managed by Dow today.
Agent Orange was applied by the military during the Vietnam War to protect U.S. and allied soldiers. Agent Orange litigation is focused on trace amounts of dioxin in the product. The government contractors, including Dow, manufactured the product according to government mandates.
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