Veterans and Agent Orange Update 1998 (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Information Gathering
Appendix A: Information Gathering
Pages 531-536
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ORAL AND WRITTEN TESTIMONY PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE Public meetings were held on June 19, 1997, in Washington, D.C., and on October 20, 1997, in Irvine, California, to solicit scientific information on the health effects of exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in the herbicides used in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. In order to reach a broad range of interested individuals, notices of the meeting were sent to members of veterans' organizations, Congress, government agencies, academic institutions, environmental groups, chemical companies, the pulp and paper industry, medical research associations, and other groups, as well as to those who attended the previous committees' public meetings in September 1992 and April 1995.
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Oral Testimony Presented at the Public Meetings Gerald Bender, Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, St. Paul Turner Camp, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Washington, DC George Clark, Xenobiotic Detection Systems, Durham, NC Le Cao Dai, Hanoi University Medical School, Hanoi, Vietnam Michael Eckstein, Vietnam Veterans of America, Stanhope, NJ; also representing the New Jersey Agent Orange Commission Julio Gonzales, Vietnam Veterans of America, Chicago Thomas Joyce, Vietnam Veterans of America, Friedens, PA Jenny LeFevre, Shady Side, MD Betty Mekdeci, Association of Birth Defect Children, Orlando, FL Charles Outlaw, Bloomfield, CT Arnold Schecter, State University of New York at Binghamton Linda Schwartz, Pawcatuck, CT Garold Schwartzenberger, Silverado, CA John Patrick Sherlock, Levittown, PA Michael Sovick, The Oklahoma Agent Orange Foundation, Norman; also presented on behalf of the Desert Storm Justice Foundation, Oklahoma City Charles Stone, Stone and Associates, Silver Spring, MD Kelli Willard West, Vietnam Veterans of America, Washington, DC Written Testimony Presented to the Committee Turner Camp, Veterans of Foreign Wars Medical Consultant, Washington, DC Topic: Strengths and weaknesses of Ranch Hands studies, particularly as they relate to diabetes and spine bifida.
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John Martignetti, Vietnam Veteran, Bethlehem, NH Topic: Personal account of health problems, including chloracne and multiple sclerosis, which he believes to be related to Agent Orange exposure. Betty Mekdeci, Association of Birth Defect Children, Orlando, FL Topic: Results of research into incidence rates of conditions in children of Vietnam veterans compared to children of non-veterans.
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Hope Tinoco, Wife of Vietnam Veteran, Olathe, KS Topic: Personal account of Vietnam veteran John Tinoco's health problems, including autoimmune disease and peripheral neuropathy, as well as the health problems of their son, both of which she believes to be related to exposure to Agent Orange. Kelli Willard West, Vietnam Veterans of America, Washington, DC Topic: Provided the committee with documents for its review and praised the credibility the committee's work has provided to the DVA's benefits programs.
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