Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam Final Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Its initial work resulted in the report Scientific Considerations Regarding a Request for Proposals for Research Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam (IOM, 1997)
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It was initially sent to persons and organizations that had requested it or were thought to have an interest in exposure-characterization research. Availability of the RFP was publicized on the Web sites of IOM's Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Society for Risk Analysis and was posted to relevant e-mail lists.
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Additional location data for troops not currently included in present databases appear to be available at the National Archives5 for abstraction and use by researchers and other interested parties in future studies. Given current knowledge and available data, the contractor has adequately demonstrated that the draft mode} is a valid means of assessing wartime herbicide exposure of Vietnam veterans.
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As detailed in that earlier report, a central issue was the demonstration that the draft model was a valid means of assessing the wartime herbicide exposure of Vietnam veterans. The Columbia University researchers implemented extensive quality control measures to assure the precision and completeness of their data, and offered both qualitative and quantitative validation information for their model.
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