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SNFamily of more than 70 chlorinated dioxins. The commonly accepted name for its most toxic member, 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-#2R-dioxin (TCDD) is dioxin. Dioxin is a byproduct of the manufacture of polychlorinated phenols and occurs as a contaminant of