Insight for Sunday 15 June 2008

Four decades after the heftiest doses of dioxin drifted onto neighbourhoods around a New Plymouth chemical plant, a health service is being set up for exposed residents.

The focus has been on a single dioxin - but tests show that Paritutu residents also have other dioxins and PCBs in their blood.

Craig Ashworth investigates the new concerns.

Picture: Noel Scouller, one of the Paritutu residents concerned about dioxin exposure.