Re: [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: NRC releases Camp Lejeune report

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lejeune water study finds no definite disease link

By ESTES THOMPSON
Associated Press
June 13, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune can't 
definitively be linked to health problems among people who lived at the 
Marine base over three decades, according to a government report 
released Saturday.

Former residents of the base in eastern North Carolina don't have 
diseases different from the general population and the industrial 
solvents that tainted well water there between the 1950s and 1985 were 
at concentrations too low to harm human health, according to the report 
ordered by Congress and released by the National Research Council.

But the 341-page report, which reviews past studies of the base's water 
and health issues there, said there are severe challenges in trying to 
connect the contaminants to any birth defects, cancer and many other 
ailments suffered by people who lived and worked on base.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gi6vC0bTdsy2zafKiX4WfKrQO0JQD98PTR0O0

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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