Seveso disaster
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The Seveso disaster was a chemical accident. It happened in an industrial plant in the Italian town of Seveso. That town in Lombardy, near Milan has about 20.000 people living there.
The industral disaster happened on July 10,1976 near that town. The disaster resulted in a massive release of the toxic dioxin called TCDD into the environment. Many people simply call this substance dioxin.
Officially, the disaster caused no human deaths. However, 3.000 farm animals and pets perished, and another 70.000 animals needed to be slaughtered to prevent the dioxin from entering the food chain.
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