Indonesians 'poisoned' by contaminated eggs from Australian rubbish: report

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The study found Indonesians eating just one egg from villages near rubbish dumps can end up with dioxin levels 70 times higher than what's considered safe.

Exported Australian plastic waste may be"poisoning" villages in Indonesia, according to a new report which found eggs near dumping grounds had some of the highest levels of dioxins recorded in Asia.

It found eating just one egg would result in dioxin levels 70 times higher than the"tolerable" intake under standards set by the European Food Safety Authority. "What that effectively means is that you won't necessarily drop dead or become ill immediately after eating one of those eggs," toxins expert Lee Bell, who also co-authored the report, told the ABC.

 

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I think we should deal with our own rubbish, it’s a lazy solution to send it to another country. If we had to deal with our own rubbish we’d get more innovative pretty quickly

and this is Australia's fault why?

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