Dioxin survey sought
NZPA. , Washington A - prominent scientist had called for a worldwide study of people exposed to in industrial accidents to help determine whether thousands of veterans face health risks from their exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam: - . . . ‘ Mr Philip- Handler, a biochemist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, said that “an immediate and comprehensive evaluation world-wide of the substan-
tial number of industrial workers exposed to dioxin over the last several decades” would be one of the most promising ways of deciding whether exposure carried long-term risk. Testifying before a House Veterans’ Affairs sub-committee, Mr Handler proposed that the World Health Organisation establish a registry of all workers exposed to dioxin in order to evaluate' the -risk ~of diseases; which often do not appear until decades later.
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