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Institute of Medicine

U.S. scientific body that Congress asked, through the Veterans Affairs Secretary, to review the evidence on herbicides and illness.

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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014, Summary, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies Press), 2016. Primary record
In response to the first request, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a committee
whose conclusions the IOM published in 1994
Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam, Summary, Institute of Medicine (National Academy Press), 1994. Primary record
Although definitive data are lacking, the available quantitative and qualitative evidence about herbicide exposure summarized in Chapter 6 suggests that Vietnam veterans as a group had substantially lower exposure to herbicides and dioxin than the subjects in many occupational studies.
The participants in Operation Ranch Hand are an exception to this pattern, and it is likely that others among the approximately 3 million men and woman who served in Vietnam were exposed to herbicides at levels associated with health effects.

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