Veterans and Agent Orange : update 2014

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Label

Veterans and Agent Orange : update 2014

Title remainder

update 2014

Statement of responsibility

Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Tenth Biennial Update), Board on the Health of Select Populations, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Creator

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides

Contributor

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Board on the Health of Select Populations

Author

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides

Issuing body

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides

Subject

• Agent Orange -- Toxicology
• Agent Orange -- Toxicology
• Defoliants, Chemical -- adverse effects
• Epidemiology
• Herbicides -- Toxicology
• MEDICAL -- Toxicology
• Occupational Exposure
• Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins -- adverse effects
• United States
• United States
• Veterans -- Health risk assessment
• Veterans Health
• Vietnam Conflict
• Vietnam War (1961-1975)
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans | Diseases
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans | Health aspects
• 1961 - 1975
• Agent Orange -- Health aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of US base camps and outlying fire-support bases. Mixtures of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), picloram, and cacodylic acid made up the bulk of the herbicides sprayed. The main chemical mixture sprayed was Agent Orange, a 50:50 mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. At the time of the spraying, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), the most toxic form of dioxin, was an unintended contaminant generated during the production of 2,4,5-T and so was present in Agent Orange and some other formulations sprayed in Vietnam. Because of complaints from returning Vietnam veterans about their own health and that of their children combined with emerging toxicologic evidence of adverse effects of phenoxy herbicides and TCDD, the National Academy of Sciences was asked to perform a comprehensive evaluation of scientific and medical information regarding the health effects of exposure to Agent Orange, other herbicides used in Vietnam, and the various components of those herbicides, including TCDD. Updated evaluations were conducted every two years to review newly available literature and draw conclusions from the overall evidence. Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014 is the final and cumulative report of the series"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

MMU

Funding information

This study was supported by Contract/Grant No. VA241-P-2024 between the National Academy of Sciences and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

RA1270.T44

LC item number

I57 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• technical reports

NLM call number

WA 240