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Category : Carcinogens
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Estimating Exposures to 2,3,7,8-TCDD.
Author: Estimating Exposures to 2,3,7,8-TCDD.
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds: Site-specific assessment procedures
Author: Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309308933
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
From 1972 to 1982, approximately 1,500-2,100 US Air Force Reserve personnel trained and worked on C-123 aircraft that had formerly been used to spray herbicides in Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand. After becoming aware that some of the aircraft on which they had worked had previously served this purpose, some of these AF Reservists applied to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for compensatory coverage under the Agent Orange Act of 1991. The Act provides health care and disability coverage for health conditions that have been deemed presumptively service-related for herbicide exposure during the Vietnam War. The VA denied the applications on the basis that these veterans were ineligible because as non-Vietnam-era veterans or as Vietnam-era veterans without "boots on the ground" service in Vietnam, they were not covered. However, with the knowledge that some air and wipe samples taken between 1979 and 2009 from some of the C-123s used in Operation Ranch Hand showed the presence of agent orange residues, representatives of the C-123 Veterans Association began a concerted effort to reverse VA's position and obtain coverage. At the request of the VA, Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft evaluates whether or not service in these C-123s could have plausibly resulted in exposures detrimental to the health of these Air Force Reservists. The Institute of Medicine assembled an expert committee to address this question qualitatively, but in a scientific and evidence-based fashion. This report evaluates the reliability of the available information for establishing exposure and addresses and places in context whether any documented residues represent potentially harmful exposure by characterizing the amounts available and the degree to which absorption might be expected. Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure rejects the idea that the dioxin residues detected on interior surfaces of the C-123s were immobile and effectively inaccessible to the Reservists as a source of exposure. Accordingly, this report states with confidence that the Air Force Reservists were exposed when working in the Operation Ranch Hand C-123s and so experienced some increase in their risk of a variety of adverse responses.
Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds: Executive summary
Author: Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of 2, 3, 7, 8 - Tetrachlorodibenzo - P - Dioxin (TCDD) and Related Compounds
Author: Barry LeonardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756716493
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In May 1991, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a scientific reassessment of the human health and exposure issues concerning dioxin and dioxin-like compounds (56 FR 50903). This reassessment resulted in two reports: a health reassessment document and an exposure report which has been expanded to the 4-volume Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds. This current version of Vol. II of that report, "Sources of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the U.S.," incorporates changes as a result of comments received during numerous scientific and peer review meetings and workshops.
Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309133882
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.
Veterans and Agent Orange
Author: Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to HerbicidesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309075299
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
Have U.S. military personnel experienced health problems from being exposed to Agent Orange, its dioxin contaminants, and other herbicides used in Vietnam? This definitive volume summarizes the strength of the evidence associating exposure during Vietnam service with cancer and other health effects and presents conclusions from an expert panel. Veterans and Agent Orange provides a historical review of the issue, examines studies of populations, in addition to Vietnam veterans, environmentally and occupationally exposed to herbicides and dioxin, and discusses problems in study methodology. The core of the book presents What is known about the toxicology of the herbicides used in greatest quantities in Vietnam. What is known about assessing exposure to herbicides and dioxin. What can be determined from the wide range of epidemiological studies conducted by different authorities. What is known about the relationship between exposure to herbicides and dioxin, and cancer, reproductive effects, neurobehavioral disorders, and other health effects. The book describes research areas of continuing concern and offers recommendations for further research on the health effects of Agent Orange exposure among Vietnam veterans. This volume will be critically important to both policymakers and physicians in the federal government, Vietnam veterans and their families, veterans organizations, researchers, and health professionals.
Interim Procedures for Estimating Risks Associated with Exposures to Mixtures of Chlorinated Dibenzo-[rho]-dioxins and -dibenzofurans (CDDs and CDFs) and 1989 Update
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Author: Judith S. BellinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carcinogens
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Human Exposure Estimation for 2,3,7,8-TCDD
Author: Charles H. NaumanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description