Review of Literature on Herbicides, Including Phenoxy Herbicides and Associated Dioxins: Volume II. Annotated Bibliography

摘要

Public Law 96-151 enacted December 20, 1979, mandated the Veterans Administration to conduct '... a comprehensive review and scientific analysis' of the worldwide literature on Agent Orange and other phenoxy herbicides. The need to conduct such a review was in response to an increasing awareness among veterans, the Congress and the public of the potential long-term health consequences of exposure to these herbicides and the contaminant dioxin as used during the Vietnam Conflict. Volume II contains an annotated bibliography of the relevant literature, i.e., about 1,200 documents identified as relevant to the review of the scientific literature on the environmental fate and toxicity of herbicides, including phenoxy herbicides, and associated dioxins, used in South Vietnam. Over 900 of these citations, those dealing primarily with health effects, are accompanied by annotations; relevant abstracts, summaries, review articles, editorials, and documents used for background material are included in the bibliography, but are not annotated. Herbicides described in this literature include: Herbicides Orange, Orange II, Purple, Pink, Green, White, Blue (cacodylic acid), Dinoxol, Trinoxol, Bromacil, Diquat, Tandex, Monuron, Diuron, and Dalapon.