Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine : Military and Veterans
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
Published: 2011-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Transport of TCDD in the Environment1

1The discussion in this section refers to the letters and numbers in Figure 4-1.

The committee considered the fate pathways of Agent Orange and TCDD after its environmental release from aerial spraying (Figure 4-1[A]) and riverbank spraying (Figure 4-1[B]). Although the committee believes that all important fate processes are discussed, the fraction of Agent Orange subject to one or another is highly uncertain. The following discussion is therefore qualitative, not quantitative, and does not include any estimate of likely environmental concentrations of TCDD that prevailed during the Vietnam War. Rather, the purpose of the following discussion is to evaluate qualitatively the likelihood that TCDD concentrations in the Vietnamese air and water after Agent Orange spraying would exceed the TCDD concentrations that would be expected in the absence of Agent Orange spraying.

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