After the demands of 'Uranium Victims Association, the Chamber of the Senate yesterday approved unanimously' (233 votes), the founding document of a commission of inquiry to investigate cases of death and serious illnesses that have struck the Italian clerical personnel in military missions abroad, with particular attention to the effects of exposure to depleted uranium used in the production of proiettili.Il document developed by the Defence Committee of the Senate comes from a compendium of two initiatives of the PD and the PDL. One that sees start today and 'the Third Committee of Inquiry on uranium after the previous two laws established during the previous (left of center, chaired by Sen. Lidia Menapace and center, chaired by Senator League, Paul Franco).
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It' important that finally was re-established the Commission for depleted uranium (which were compounded by other hazards such as asbestos, vaccines and nano particles). With regard to cases of sick only in the military (ie not civilians) for possible contamination by depleted uranium now the figure based on data collected by the Military Health, and surpass the 2,500.
The root node has not yet resolved is that which concerns the failure to apply the "precautionary principle". Where there is confidence that there is no danger to be adopted. It certainly has not been adopted in many situations where you had to do with depleted uranium, asbestos, and vaccines. As for vaccines has shown that in many cases, but had to be administered in the space of a few weeks, were administered in a single day! As for uranium in Somalia, with 40 degrees in the shade, they adopted the U.S. military protective clothing, masks and goggles, while our having operated without any protective measures (such as a finding of civil court in Florence on 17/12/2008). That uranium is the possible cause of cancer is confirmed by the Finance Act 2008 where they settled their compensation for illnesses caused by uranium and nano-particles. Although there is, of course, the certainty of the link between uranium and cancer, no one has ever dared to say that a bond can not be there. Hence the reasons for the compensation set by the Finance Act 2008 and the implementing regulations.
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FELICE CASSON (PD), COMMISSIONE D'INCHIESTA SERVE A FAR CHIAREZZA
«L'istituzione di una commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul cosiddetto uranio impoverito, voluta dal Senato in modo bipartisan, è un grande passo avanti per arrivare a fare chiarezza, in modo definitivo, sugli effetti negativi per la salute dei nostri militari, dei cittadini che vivono in prossimità delle basi e dei poligoni di tiro e dei civili che anche in occasione delle missioni sono venuti a contatto con questo tipo di munizioni e con altre sostanze tossico-nocive e cancerogene». Lo dice il senatore Felice Casson, vicepresidente del gruppo Pd, primo signatory to one of the two bills and then examined by the Defence Committee of Members of the Senate.
"In the last legislature, says Casson, the committee of inquiry into depleted uranium, in its final report, has recommended further work to deepen the investigation. In particular, the parliamentary body has recommended, but is unable to ascertain with certainty a cause-effect relationship between the pathologies presented by the military and civil and individual risk factors, such as the dispersion of nanoparticles of heavy metals due to munitions 'depleted uranium, however, to recognize the onset of illness the right to compensation or indemnity for our soldiers. " The parliamentary body also stressed the need to continue to collect clinical data on military and civilians and refine the protocols for health surveillance.
"The committee of investigation that continues today establishing the Senate-Casson-aims to go further, considering that there are still important medical investigations, epidemiological and biological weapons. You should verify the adequacy of collecting and analyzing health data from military and civilians, both operating in the country, which sent a mission abroad, to examine the components of vaccines administered to personnel of the Armed Forces, to investigate the asbestos-related diseases or radon gas, which hit our military and, above all, concluded the senator-evaluate the adequacy of compensation is that of a social security income support to those affected. "
