What is the National Academy of Sciences doing regarding this issue?
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a non-governmental organization, is reviewing all relevant scientific literature and providing advice to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on a wide range of issues relative to herbicides and dioxin. The NAS project is being undertaken in accordance with Public Law 102-4, the Agent Orange Act of 1991, signed by President Bush on February 6, 1991. The NAS reported its initial findings to VA and Congress in July 1993. The first update report was released on March 14, 1996. Future reports are anticipated biennially. The NAS is also considering the feasibility of developing a historical herbicide exposure reconstruction model that could be used in Agent Orange-related research efforts.
