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Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

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"Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing concerns. As a result, ground forces have long relied on incineration in open-air pits as a means of getting rid of refuse. Concerns over possible adverse effects of exposure to smoke from trash burning in the theater were first expressed in the wake of the 1990--1991 Gulf War and stimulated a series of studies that indicated that exposures to smoke from oil-well fires and from other combustion sources, including waste burning, were stressors for troops. In January 2013, Congress directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and maintain a registry for service members who may have been exposed to toxic airborne chemicals and fumes generated by open burn pits. Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry analyzes the initial mont

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ISBN: 9780309451178
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Author: Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Format: Paperback
Genres: Pollution and threats to the environment