[CPEO-MEF] DISPOSAL, GLOBAL: "Committee Will Study Respiratory Diseases Related to Military Burn Pits, Dust"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Committee Will Study Respiratory Diseases Related to Military Burn Pits, Dust


By Patricia Kime
Military.com 
April 12, 2019

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine panel has launched a study on the respiratory effects of burn pits and other pollution encountered by U.S. troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

The planned 21-month review marks the second time a National Academies committee has explored the subject: in 2011, a group of physicians and scientists, under what was known then as the Institute of Medicine, concluded there was insufficient evidence to link troops' illnesses to exposure to burn pit smoke at Joint Base Balad in Iraq.

That committee found that the level of pollutants at Balad were not higher than those measured at other polluted sites in the world and concluded that other sources of pollution, such as particulate matter and metals found in dust in the region, may have contributed to troops' long-term health problems.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/12/committee-will-study-respiratory-diseases-related-military-burn-pits-dust.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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