Director of the Amsterdam laboratory "Bio Detection Systems," professor of environmental toxicology Abraham Brouwer determined which dioxin poisoned candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
This dioxin is called 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxine) or abbreviated: 2,3,7,8-TCDD.
As the Dutch toxicologist reported on Friday, the result was obtained by him on Thursday evening on the basis of an analysis of a blood sample from Yushchenko that came from the director of the Vienna clinic "Rudolfinerhaus," professor Michael Zimpfer.
Brouwer identified the aforementioned dioxin from approximately 400 possible types of dioxins.
The concentration of 2,3,7,8-TCDD in Yushchenko's blood - 100 thousand units per gram of blood - was six thousand times higher than normal, the toxicologist reported.
"Only once in my entire career have I encountered a higher concentration of dioxin in blood. At that time, poisoning was suffered by a woman who worked at one of the enterprises in Vienna," said Brouwer.
"Such a high concentration of dioxin in Yushchenko's blood indicates that this poison was introduced into the food he consumed artificially, because the natural presence of such a quantity of dioxin in products is excluded," noted the professor. "Furthermore, the analysis also showed that the dioxin was introduced into the food artificially."
The dioxin 2,3,7,8-TCDD in sufficiently large quantities can be produced only under laboratory conditions, the toxicologist emphasized.
At this time, professor Brouwer is awaiting permission from the Vienna clinic and from Yushchenko himself to conduct further analyses, which, based on the smallest impurities of the isolated dioxin and other indicators, will allow determining how and where it was produced.
This will give the investigation the opportunity to find out who is involved in Yushchenko's poisoning.