Caption: Fish advisories dot the banks of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers. Various forms or pollution, including historical dioxin pollution from Dow Chemical, have led to warnings to avoid certain species of fish and limit consumption for them. Pregnant w, Credit: Shawn Allee
Image by: Shawn Allee 
Fish advisories dot the banks of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers. Various forms or pollution, including historical dioxin pollution from Dow Chemical, have led to warnings to avoid certain species of fish and limit consumption for them. Pregnant w 

Part 4: Hunters Warned After Dioxin Delays

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Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today. Read the full description.
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It's deer season in Michigan, and hunters are trekking through the woods, trying to bag dinner or something special for the holidays.  Hunting's gotten a little complicated in some areas recently.  Just because you catch something doesn't mean you should eat it.   That's because a stretch of river in Michigan was polluted with dioxin - decades ago.  Shawn Allee found the state thinks old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.

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It's deer season in Michigan, and hunters are trekking through the woods, trying to bag dinner or something special for the holidays.  Hunting's gotten a little complicated in some areas recently.  Just because you catch something doesn't mean you should eat it.   That's because a stretch of river in Michigan was polluted with dioxin - decades ago.  Shawn Allee found the state thinks old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.

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It's deer season in Michigan, and hunters are trekking through the woods, trying to bag dinner or something special for the holidays.

Hunting's gotten a little complicated in some areas recently.

Just because you catch something doesn't mean you should eat it.

That's because a stretch of river in Michigan was polluted with dioxin - decades ago.

Shawn Allee found the state thinks old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.

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It was hard for me to understand why wild game like deer or turkey might be contaminated from river pollution, so I hit up Daniel O'Brien for some answers.

O'Brien's a toxicologist with Michigan's Department of Natural Resources.

He says the problem starts with dioxin in the river.

O'Brien: It's in the sediments in the contaminated parts of the Tittabawassee River and after flood events in the spring when mud in the...
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It's deer season in Michigan, and hunters are trekking through the woods, trying to bag dinner or something special for the holidays. Hunting's gotten a little complicated in some areas recently. Just because you catch something doesn't mean you should eat it. That's because a stretch of river in Michigan was polluted with dioxin - decades ago. In the fourth part of our series on Dow and dioxin, Shawn Allee found the state thinks old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.

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Host tag: Tomorrow the final piece in the series on Dow and dioxin. How new science may affect clean-ups across the country.

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