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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 4/8/2005 12:52:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lkvp AT floydva.net writes:


> You're done producing offspring, but please don't do this regularly.  
> Years ago when we learned how Chlorox breaks down into dioxin in rivers 
> and streams and is very unsalubrious (?) for the animals living in those 
> habitats, we quit using it when doing laundry.  Now it's kept on hand 
> only for emergencies.
> 

Chlorine only breaks down into dioxins in the presence of high heat (and 
maybe pressure?) -- thus is it a biproduct of *commercial* bleaching, 
especially 
of paper around here, but is not the biproduct of home use of Chlorox.

Denise