Bernard A
Bull Mem Acad R Med Belg. 2000;155(3-4):195-201; discussion 201-4.
In 1999, a food crisis broke out in Belgium as a result of the accidental contamination of animal feed by PCBs (polychlorobiphenyls) and dioxins (mainly furans). The analysis of the database from the PCB food monitoring program implemented after the discovery of incident confirms that the contamination has been very limited, both in time (peak at the end of January) and in the food chain (affecting less than 0.5% of the farms in the whole country). The extreme scenario of a doubling of the PCB and dioxin body burden as envisaged in "Nature" (401: 231-232, 1999) could have been conceivable only in the case of farmers who would have consumed their own products. But even in such an extreme case, this would mean going back to the levels of PCB and dioxin body burden of subjects living in the 1980s or of those regularly eating contaminated seafood.
1999年，比利时爆发了一场食品危机，原因是多氯联苯（PCBs）和二恶英（主要是呋喃）意外污染了动物饲料。对事件发现后实施的多氯联苯食品监测计划数据库的分析证实，污染在时间（1月底达到峰值）和食物链方面都非常有限（影响全国不到0.5%的农场）。《自然》杂志（401: 231 - 232, 1999）所设想的多氯联苯和二恶英体内负荷加倍的极端情况，只有在农民食用自己产品的情况下才可能出现。但即使在这种极端情况下，这也意味着要回到20世纪80年代生活的人或经常食用受污染海鲜的人的多氯联苯和二恶英体内负荷水平。
