Maine Questions Canadian Study of Agent Orange Use at New Brunswick Military Base

Maine’s state legislature has called for a new investigation into the use of herbicides, including Agent Orange, in the 1960s on a southern New Brunswick military base, describing a Canadian study that found no risks to human health as flawed. The potential links between health problems and the use of Agent Orange at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown need to be re-evaluated, says a report released in January by the 10-member Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission. A new investigation, it said, would help United States veterans access medical care if they had worked at the base, where in 1966 and 1967 the American military tested defoliants such as Agent Orange, which was used extensively by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War to destroy crops of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese....