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Nature 406, 818 (24 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35022727

US and Vietnam plan joint dioxin research

Rex Dalton

In what some see as a unique research opportunity and others as an ironic footnote to history, the first US–Vietnamese research programme on dioxin pollution entered the planning stage last week.A multidisciplinary panel of researchers assembled by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) met in an attempt to identify research gaps that could be filled by bilateral studies.