1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002008960403321

Autore

Bastock, Margaret

Titolo

Courtship : a zoological study / Margaret Bastock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Heinemann educational books Ltd, 1967

Descrizione fisica

220 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Heinemann studies in biology ; 4

Disciplina

591.56

Locazione

DAGEN

Collocazione

61 III C.7/14

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797128803321

Titolo

Post-Vietnam dioxin exposure in agent orange-contaminated C-123 aircraft / / Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-309-30893-3

0-309-30891-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Disciplina

615.95137

Soggetti

Agent Orange - Health aspects - United States

Agent Orange - Testing

Veterans - Health and hygiene - United States

Aircraft - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 TCDD: Physicochemical Properties and Health Guidelines; 3 Air Force Use of the C-123 Provider: Background and Sampling Data; 4 Evaluation of Assessments of Possible Exposure of Air Force Reservists from Service in Operation Ranch Hand C-123s; 5 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

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--