[CPEO-MEF] DU Test

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How Good Is Good Enough?
Chapter 5: The best test

The world's most accurate test for depleted uranium exposure is now 
available - but only in Britain and Germany. The Pentagon says U.S. vets 
don't need it.

BY BOB EVANS
Hampton Roads Daily Press
December 15, 2004

In Great Britain, veterans of the 1991 Gulf War are signing up to take 
the world's most precise test for determining exposure to depleted uranium.

The U.S. government advertises a test for its veterans of that war too. 
But the test that it offers can't detect uranium in low amounts, has a 
high error rate and uses equipment that's less sensitive and accurate 
than the machines the British are using. U.S. vets and soldiers who've 
had this test say they've been told they weren't exposed when, in fact, 
the tests were simply incapable of detecting whether depleted uranium 
was present.

Members of Congress have asked the Pentagon to look into testing 
programs in other countries. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 
promised to do that in April. But after that promise was made, the 
officer in charge of U.S. testing said he had no reason to gather such 
data because his test was good enough.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/specials/dp-du5,0,4881579.story?coll=dp-breaking-news

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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