Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Executive Summary
Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 1993. Presumed first edition/firt printing of this Executive Summary. Wraps. ONLY the Executive Summary. xviii, 22 p ill 24cm. Includes table of contents of full report. From Wikipedia: "Agent Orange or Herbicide Orange (HO) is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It was a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D. In mid-1961, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam asked the United States to conduct aerial herbicide spraying in his country. In August of that year, the South Vietnamese Air Force initiated herbicide operations with American help. In November 1961, President John F. Kennedy authorized the start of Operation Ranch Hand, the codename for the U.S. Air Force's herbicide program in Vietnam. Agent Orange was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides" Condition: Good. Highlighting/underlining. Some highlighting noted on page vi and marginal ink mark on page 15. Publisher's ephemera laid in.
Keywords: Herbicides, Defoliants, Health Effects, Product Liability, TCDD, Epidemiologic Studies, Reproductive Effects, Neurobehavioral Effects
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