Researchers 'shocked' at Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam

Researchers 'shocked' at Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam

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The dangerous herbicide Agent Orange is still contaminating soil and fish in Vietnam at an alarming rate, a Canadian environmental firm has found.

The Vancouver-based Hatfield Consultants studied the contamination levels in the area of Da Nang, a large coastal city in central Vietnam, and found contamination to be 300 to 400 times higher than what is considered acceptable.

"We were very shocked," Thomas Boivin of Hatfield Consultants told CBC News Monday. "The levels were significantly higher than we had anticipated."

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this was one of my previous threads.. There was some testing on human beeing a around 1968-1970 on a canadian air base.... This product is really dangerous for health...

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Really Agent Orange bad for you? Who would have thunk it? Seriously they had apparently dumped tons of the stuff over the jungles of Vietnam and they didn't think of what the long term ecological effects would be to the environment.

Yes, but they have made testing on a CFB base in New-Brunswick. since then there are about 50-70 person around the base that devellop cancer, respiratory problems and other health problems. Now imagine on a large scale in vietnam jungle how many child and adults that could be sick because of agent orange....