After Reviewing Cancer Study, Army to Keep Chem Demil Plans

By Suzanne Yohannan / January 4, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- The Army's Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) has concluded it does not need to change its chemical weapons destruction practices after analyzing a study that identified a possible link between nerve agent exposure during the first Gulf War and brain cancer deaths. The agency, however, has called on DOD's Armed Forces Epidemiological Board to confirm the conclusions reached in its analysis and to determine whether additional precautions should be taken when the Army destroys weapons containing the...

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