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A. L. Young, The history, use, disposition and environmental fate of Agent Orange

Springer 2009. XVIII, 339pp, 125 illus. in color, hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-387-87485-2.74,95 €. http://www.springer.com/978-0-387-87485-2. Online version available.Online orders shipping within 2–3 days

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Notes

  1. P. 162, 2-3

  2. The book was announced in Environ Sci Pollut Res (2009) 17:241-243. Throughout this review the term “Agent Orange” refers to the herbicide and/or the controversy; the italicized “Agent Orange” refers to the book.

  3. P. 37; the precise composition lists three other components at ≤1%. 2,4-D is 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid; 2,4,5-T is 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid.

  4. P. 37; p. 121

  5. Commercial herbicides were also used in Vietnam for brush control around base perimeters and other non-tactical applications and were purchased from commercial suppliers by a different military office.

  6. “Dioxin” is a colloquial term for the class of chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and chlorinated dibenzofurans. The most toxic and infamous dioxin is 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, TCDD. Early science and controversies focused on TCDD. Later work evolved to include a broader suite of the chemical family and the “TCDD” issue slowly morphed into the “dioxin” issue.

  7. P. 6

  8. P. 95

  9. P. 95

  10. P 14, 5

  11. P 15, 1

  12. P. 177, 2

  13. P. 146–150

  14. P. 161

  15. The 29th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (Dioxin 2009) was held on August 23-28, 2009 in Beijing, China.

  16. P. 106

  17. P. 130

  18. P. 169, 1

  19. P.7

  20. P. 8 Quoting AC Holden, “Agent Orange Furor Continues to Build. Science 205 (24): 770–772 (1979).

  21. P. 10

  22. P. 168, 3

  23. P. 169, 2

  24. Accessed 29 Oct 2009.

  25. P. 11. References omitted for clarity.

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Erickson, M.D. A. L. Young, The history, use, disposition and environmental fate of Agent Orange. Environ Sci Pollut Res 17, 1016–1019 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-010-0314-2

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