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            UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     Expected at 9:30 a.m., Est.
                                     Wednesday, November 18, 1981

                    SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF
         ROBERT A. PETERSON, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
                   HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION

                          BEFORE THE
                COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS
                     UNITED STATES SENATE

                              ON                            116885

                         AGENT ORANGE

     GAO has reviewed the draft protocol for epidemiological

studies of Agent Orange submitted to the Veterans Administration

by the UCLA researchers and believes that

     --the proposed feasibility study to determine troop
       exposures would be costly with no guarantee that
       it would identify a population of ground troops
       with measurable exposure, and would delay the start
       of the epidemiology study,

     --the data bases the UCLA researchers propose using
       for the mortality and morbidity studies may contain
       inadequate or inaccurate information which could
       limit the usefulness of these studies, and

     --there are serious questions about the possible adverse
       affects of exposure to Agent Blue and other chemicals
       used in Vietnam.

     Expansion of the epidemiology study to determine whether

service in Vietnam, rather than solely exposure to Agent Orange,

may have adversely affected the health of Vietnam veterans would

eliminate the need for tne costly and time-consuming feasibility

study, and, at the same time eliminate the need for future

studies on the health effects of Agent Blue, and other chemicals


used in Vietnam.

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