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Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft

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Post-Vietnam Dioxin Exposure in Agent Orange-Contaminated C-123 Aircraft / Committee to Evaluate the Potential Exposure to Agent Orange/TCDD Residue and Level of Risk of Adverse Health Effects for Aircrew of Post-Vietnam C-123 Aircraft, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Publication
  • Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the Potential Exposure to Agent Orange/TCDD Residue and Level of Risk of Adverse Health Effects for Aircrew of Post-Vietnam C-123 Aircraft.
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on the Health of Select Populations.
Description
xv, 103 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"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."--Publisher's description.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references (pages 79-85).
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available via the World Wide Web.
Contents
Introduction -- TCDD: Physicochemical Properties and Health Guidelines -- Air Force Use of the C-123 Provider: Background and Sampling Data -- Evaluation of Assessments of Possible Exposure of Air Force Reservists from Service in Operation Ranch Hand C-123s -- Summary of Findings -- References -- Appendix A: Public Agendas from Committee Meetings -- Appendix B: History and Sampling of C-123s in the United States After Spraying Herbicides in Vietnam -- Appendix C: Committee Biographies.
ISBN
  • 9780309308908
  • 0309308909
OCLC
  • ocn910210790
  • 910210790
  • SCSB-5807853
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Columbia University Libraries