Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure To Chemical Agents, Volume 3 Final Report: Current Health Status of Test Subjects (1985) / Chapter Skim
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The work of the panels began in 1980, when the Department of the Army asked the Committee on Toxicology in the Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards of the National Research Council's Assembly of Life Sciences (now the Commission on Life Sciences) to review the Edgewood experimental studies and advise on the long-term or delayed health effects that the volunteer test subjects might have sustained.
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The new material did not change the original findings concerning deaths; no excess of mortality appeared among subjects tested with the five classes of chemicals or with LSD, which was the subject of a separate report., 4 Some 6,720 volunteers participated in the Army tests. For 325 of these, a claim for burial allowance had been received by the Veterans' Administration by 1984, leaving 6,395 presumed to be still living.
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