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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . The study was conducted by a team of researchers at Queens College in New York, led by Dr. Barry Commoner. Dioxin has emerged in the past 15 years as one of the two or three most dangerous chemicals ever tested. Dioxin is thus a serious public health problem. Only cement kilns in the U.S. burn hazardous waste, and these incinerators produce 13 times as much dioxin, per pound of cement manufactured, compared to cement kilns that do not burn hazardous waste.