Open-Air Burning Pits Pose Health Risks to Personnel.. Repost: Coy also stated the ineffectiveness of registries: “We do not believe a health registry is the appropriate epidemiological tool to use in identifying possible adverse health effects associated with certain environmental exposures. Health registries, by their nature, can only produce very limited and possibly skewed results.” Additionally, he went to remark that the registries for Vietnam Veterans exposed to Agent Orange and an Veterans of the Gulf War and Gulf War Syndrome were “useful in terms of researching the types of health concerns raised by these Veterans.” In 2010, the American Lung Association called for the military to ban open burn pits citing “Emissions from burning waste contain fine particulate matter, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and various irritant gases such as nitrogen oxides that can scar the lungs.” ...See More
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