Re: reply to Cedervall (was Re: uranium munitions / malformations

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>"Depleted and natural uranium: chemistry and toxicological effects" in

the _Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part B, Critical

Reviews_; July-August 2004; vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 297-317.  The ISSN is 

1093-7404.

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This paper does not clarify the issue of whether genetic changes (due to DU 

exposure) will go down the germ line and later be expressed in the next 

generation as malformations (this was my key objection). The paper is about 

different chemical forms of uranium and how the kinetics relating to 

distribution in the body (nothing wrong with this topic). I doubt that urine 

concentration is a good way to indirectly monitor what is in the testes 

unless it is about long time exposure with equilibrium in the body (BTW: The 

Swedish UN soldiers who came back from Kosovo had lower uranium in their 

urine than they had before they left - we have a relatively high uranium 

concentration in drinking water).



My personal initiative and reflections only,



Bjorn Cedervall     bcradsafers@hotmail.com





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