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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Americans eat food routinely containing roughly 10 to 100 times more dioxin than EPA considers safe. No one makes dioxin intentionally, but many industries create dioxin as a byproduct of their main activity. Partly to please the paper industry, and partly because there were new scientific findings worth considering, EPA chief William Reilly announced a year-long dioxin reassessment to begin in April, 1991. Now, nine months into the year-long process, EPA scientists responsible for parts of the reassessment have begun talking openly about new findings that make dioxin seem as bad as, or worse than, EPA used to think.