[CPEO-MEF] 1994 Tungsten Study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

1994 report: Tungsten 'highly toxic'

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
February 22, 2007

Five years before tungsten-nylon bullets were fired at Camp Edwards, an 
Army contractor warned military leaders against using tungsten in its 
so-called environmentally friendly munitions.

Tungsten "may actually be more dangerous than lead," Stephen Adelman 
Associates wrote in a 1994 Army-funded report.

The Maryland-based contractor called tungsten "highly toxic" and urged 
military leaders to be wary of calling any material "nontoxic" simply 
because it was lead-free.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/1994report22.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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