The dioxin TCDD clean-up efforts at former military bases and other Vietnam hotspots are ongoing. However, the lesser-told story was the environmental and human health impacts on the communities and chemical plant workers who manufactured Agent Orange and other herbicides that became contaminated ...
The soil in and around some of the US and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) military bases continue to have extremely high levels of dioxin. The US military bases where the barrels of Agent Orange were off-loaded, stored and then pumped into the spray planes or “brown water” s...
dioxin, but their claims were denied unless they could prove the condition began when they were in the service or within one year of their discharge. In order to qualify for compensation, veterans must have served on or near the perimeters of military bases in Thailand during the Vietnam Era...
Agent Orange, mixture of herbicides that U.S. military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroying crops that
Dioxin in Agent Orange Effects of Agent Orange Veteran Health Issues and Legal Battle Legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam Sources Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong tro...
The burial of Agent Orange poses a serious environmental hazard. If toxic dioxin from corroded storage drums seeps into the Nakdong River, the consequences would be grave. The dumping, which took place 34 years ago, can trigger public anger and distrust toward American military bases as well as...
Agent Orange, which was contaminated with the most toxic form of dioxin. These and the other herbicides sprayed during the war constituted the chemicals of interest for the committee. The exact number of U.S.military personnelwho served in Vietnam is unknown because deployment to the theater ...
The use of the Agent Orange family of herbicides (the so-called “rainbow herbicides”) left nearly a quarter of Vietnam defoliated, and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), an impurity in the Agent Orange mixture and a suspected carcinogen, has left a devastating long-term impact...
In addition to its damaging environmental effects, traces of dioxin (mainly TCDD, the most toxic of its type) found in AGENT ORANGE caused major health problems for many individuals who were exposed. Between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly 20,000,000 U.S. gallons of...
a phenoxy-herbicide mixture called Agent Orange, which was contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodJoxin, or TCDD, was used primarily for destruction of forest and other foliage in order to prevent enemy troop movement and protect American and allied troops and military bases in the south ...