Word: dioxins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more concrete level, the Federal government must begin authoritative testing of Agent Orange, a lethal defoliant which was aerially sprayed on the Vietnamese jungle during the war. The deadly toxin dioxin, the active ingredient of Agent Orange, has been linked to cancer in Vietnam vets and birth defects among their children. In addition, some have argued that Agent Orange has been responsible for Delayed Stress Syndrome, a mental disturbance many vets have faced since the war. Efforts must be made along federal and state level's to see whether Agent Orange is indeed as dangerous as feared...
...tiny minority of Viet Nam veterans were exposed to Agent Orange. Yet the Veterans Administration's handling of the issue has ranged from indifferent to slipshod, and serves for the veterans as a vivid example of Government callousness. Dioxin, the toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, has been linked with skin diseases, birth defects and cancer. Yet, according to reports last month by both the General Accounting Office and the Office of Technology Assessment, the VA has been inexcusably reluctant to study the effects of Agent Orange and has provided only cursory, inadequate medical exams...
Kligman, well-known dermatologist and an expert on such ailments as acne and athlete's foot, performed experiments with the chemical dioxin on many inmates during the 1960s, with grants from Dow and the U.S. Department of Defense...
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last January investigated Kligman's dioxin experiments. A former Dow worker claimed during the EPA hearings that Kligman went well beyond the guidelines for the dioxin experiments approved by Dow and the university...
...Dioxin has recently been linked by researchers to cancer, fetal death and birth defects. It is also a major component of Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam...