Much of my early career was spent working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever discovered, dioxin and aflatoxin. I initially worked at MIT, where I was assigned a chicken feed puzzle. Millions of chicks a year were dying from an unknown toxic chemical in their feed, and I had the responsibility of isolating and determining the structure of this chemical. After two and a half years, I helped discover dioxin, arguably the most toxic chemical ever found. This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or Agent Orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War.

T. Colin Campbell

Tag: vietnam-war aflatoxin agent-orange dioxin

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It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

Karl Marlantes

Tag: war vietnam-war agent-orange poisonous-gas

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