[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "Exposure to beryllium not a factor for US Navy"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Exposure to beryllium not a factor for US Navy

By Keith Wrightson
CitizenVox/Public Citizen
June 24, 2013

With a budget of $155.8 billion, one might think the US Navy could  
afford to make sure service members won’t needlessly suffer from  
exposure to toxic substances.

But the United States Navy has exposed workers to beryllium, a highly  
toxic metal, and then deliberately chosen not to test them for  
beryllium sensitization.

To determine beryllium sensitization, the price for the Beryllium  
Lymphocyte Proliferation Test is $266.00 per test ($133,000 to test  
the 500 service members who are likely to have been exposed).


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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizenvox.org/2013/06/24/exposure-to-beryllium-not-a- 
factor-for-the-us-navy/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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