[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, MUNITIONS: Vieques health review

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US to review contested study that found no adverse effects of military 
exercises in Vieques

MANUEL ERNESTO RIVERA
Associated Press
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
August 13, 2009

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. authorities have begun a review of a 
five-year study that found no ill effects caused by decades of military 
exercises on the tiny island of Vieques.

The executive director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry met with residents late Wednesday and pledged to revisit the 
agency's findings. Howard Frumkin said officials would correct data and 
investigate further if needed.

"If there is anything more we can do, it will be done," he said.

Frumkin's visit to Puerto Rico marks the start of the review of a study 
that came under fire in congressional hearings earlier this year.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-cb-puerto-rico-vieques-cleanup,0,2251677.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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