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Other scientists disagree. Arnold Schecter, an epidemiologist at the State University of New York, argues that the government's studies lacked adequate controls and failed to quantify the amount of TCDD (the most toxic compound in dioxin) to which the subjects were ex- posed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies TCDD as a "probable human carcinogen." In addition, many cancers have 15-year latency periods; the carcinogenic effects m...