‘Unsafe’ levels of dioxin in gourmet ice cream; more dioxin in Ben & Jerry’s than gasoline refinery effluent, researchers report. “Levels of dioxin in a sample serving of Ben & Jerry’s brand ice cream are approximately 2,200 times greater than the level of

dioxin allowed in a “serving” of wastewater discharged into San Francisco Bay from the Tosco Refinery, according to a study

presented at the Dioxins 2000 conference today in Monterrey, California.”