The toxic chemical is still present in high concentrations in the environment and in the food chain around ex-US airbases. Scroll down for videoUS forces dropped 20 million gallons of Agent Orange over Vietnam during the war to thin vegetation utilised by the Viet Cong. 'After President Nixon ordered the US military to stop spraying Agent Orange in 1970, this is the site where all the Agent Orange barrels remaining in Vietnam were collected. During the Vietnam War, United States aircraft sprayed more than 20 million gallons of herbicides, including dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange, on the country's rain forests, wetlands, and croplands Agent Orange defoliated the thick jungle vegetation concealing Viet Cong fighters. However, during production of Agent Orange, a toxic byproduct formed: dioxin TCDD, the most toxic of the dioxin family of chemicals.

Source: Daily Mail March 01, 2019 15:18 UTC