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Review of the US Navy's Human Health Risk Assessment of the Naval Air Facility at Atsugi, Japan (2001) / Chapter Skim
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... The subcommittee recognizes that such surveillance is not a part of traditional risk assessments but believes that it could provide useful, complementary information. Health surveillance of personnel and their families residing at NAF Atsugi is useful for assessing all but chronic effects with latent periods in excess of the period of residence.
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... Stakeholders' concerns should be taken into account when designing surveillance programs. NEHC should consider studying the potential health effects of peak contaminant concentrations (for example, correlating contaminant concentrations with anecdotal subjective reports)
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