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Agent Orange was a mixture of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T that was used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. When these herbicides are manufactured, the formation of a very small amount of a byproduct, TCDD (dioxin), is inavoldable. TCDD was present in these herbicides at a concentration of only a few parts per million. (The process has since been "cleaned up" so that TCDD is produced in concentrations of only parts per billion or trillion.) TCDD was not the active ingredient of Agent Orange, as Mr. Solomon states...
Bloss is known to have sprayed oil contaninated with dioxin in several Jefferson County horse arenas in the early 1970s Horses, birds and small animals later died in those areas. Bloss did not know the oil, obtained from a chemical company, contained the porson
...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...
...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...