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Dow is responsible for a large proportion of the dioxin-related illness, death, and deformity worldwide, through its creation of organochlorine aliphatic and aromatic polymers, feedstocks, and agricultural chemicals. Agent Orange and its domestic equivalent 2,4,5-T, napalm, and Dursban stand out as examples of Dow technology. Dow-contracted researchers applied pure dioxin (2,3,7,8 TCDD) directly to prisoners' skin at Holmesburg, Pennsylvania prison experiments in the 60s. For details of their corporate crimes see below ...... and please email us with more.
Inmates Sue Over Medical Studies - 18.10.2000 Associated Press: Dow exposes inmates to infectious diseases, radiation, dioxin and psychotropic drugs - all without their informed consent
DOW - making a beeline for INDIA - Just as they said they would, Dow are investing hugely in India as a key region for business development. Subsidiary names and addresses here
Chlorpyrifos (a.k.a Dursban) - a brief history 0,0-diethyl-0-(3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyl) phosphorothioate
Technical brief on Dursban - one of the most hazardous pesticides known
INFACT's Hall of Shame - Hiding behind corporate front groups
The Menace from Midland - How Dow started out, bleach, mustard gas, picric acid, magnesium for bombs and how they developed their cunning PR strategy to match
The South's day in court - Texas supreme court hands down landmark decision re forum non conveniens
Dow Corning: Breast Implants Gone Bad - Violating federal law by deliberately withholding safety data on silicone used in breast implants
Dioxin King - Dow is the world's largest producer of dioxin, which has been linked to a range of health problems, including a variety of cancers, endometriosis, declining fertility, immune system suppression and birth defects
The corporate imbalance sheet - some horrifying statistics
Union Carbide, Dow - Images of Bhopal, Vietnam War - 5.8.1999 Reuters: "Dow Chemical ... will never win the corporate 'good guy' award"
Dursban - 2.3.1998: Rebutting Dow's defence of it's oldest, best-selling domestic product
Inmates Sue Over Medical Studies - 18.10.2000 Associated Press: Dow exposes inmates to infectious diseases, radiation, dioxin and psychotropic drugs - all without their informed consent