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1 Introduction
Pages 23-27

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From page 23...
... In addition, the Hadnot Point water system served the base hospital and an industrial area, periodically supplemented water supply to the Holcomb Boulevard system in summer months (Bove and Ruckart 2008) , and temporarily supplied water to the Holcomb Boulevard water system for a 2-week period during an emergency in 1985 (GAO 2007)
From page 24...
... ATSDR is now studying children born at Camp Lejeune in 1968-1985 to determine whether exposure to VOCs in drinking water is related to specific birth defects and childhood cancers. Health effects under consideration include spina bifida, anencephaly, cleft lip, cleft palate, childhood leukemia, and childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
From page 25...
... As indicated above, EPA has not yet released a revised risk assessment of TCE. COMMITTEE'S TASK At the request of Congress, the Navy sponsored this study by a committee of the National Research Council to review the scientific evidence on associations between adverse health effects and historical data on prenatal, childhood, and adult exposures to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
From page 26...
... A third public meeting was held in September 2008 to hear about ATSDR's assessment of the feasibility of conducting additional epidemiologic studies. The current report expands on previous reviews of the Camp Lejeune drinking-water contamination by providing an assessment of multiple lines of research to ascertain the likelihood that exposure to the contaminated water supply is associated with adverse health effects.
From page 27...
... In reviewing what adverse health effects might result from exposure to the contaminants, the committee first reviews the toxicology literature in Chapter 4, which involves primarily studying effects in animals given the contaminants under experimental conditions. Chapter 5 reviews studies of human subjects who were exposed to the same chemicals that contaminated the Camp Lejeune drinking-water system, mainly studies of occupational exposure.


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