Editing Edgewood Arsenal human experiments (section)

===Government reports===
'''1982-85 IOM report'''<br>
The [[Institute of Medicine]] (IOM) published a three-volume report on the Edgewood research in 1982–1985, ''Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Chemical Agents''.<ref>''Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Chemical Agents'', Commission on Life Sciences. The [[National Academies Press]]. In three volumes:
* [http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=740&page=1 Vol. 1, "Anticholinesterases and Anticholinergics"] (1982).
* [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9136&page=1 Vol. 2, "Cholinesterase Reactivators, Psychochemicals and Irritants and Vesicants] (1984)
* [http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9984&page=1 Vol. 3, "Final Report: Current Health Status of Test Subjects"] (1985)</ref>

The three volumes were:
*Vol. 1, "Anticholinesterases and Anticholinergics" (1982).
*Vol. 2, "Cholinesterase Reactivators, Psychochemicals and Irritants and Vesicants" (1984)
*Vol. 3, "Final Report: Current Health Status of Test Subjects" (1985)

The [[National Academy of Sciences]], which oversees the IOM, sent a questionnaire to all of the former volunteers that could be located, approximately 60% of the total. The lack of a detailed record hampered the investigation. The study could not rule out long-term health effects related to exposure to the nerve agents. It concluded that "Whether the subjects at Edgewood incurred these changes [depression, cognitive deficits, tendency to suicide] and to what extent they might now show these effects are not known". With regard specifically to BZ and related compounds, the IOM study concluded that "available data suggest that long-term toxic effects and/or delayed sequellae are unlikely".

'''2004 GAO report'''<br>
A [[Government Accounting Office]] report of May 2004, ''Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to Continue to Collect and Provide Information on Tests and Potentially Exposed Personnel'' (pp.&nbsp;1, 24), stated:

<blockquote>[In 1993 and 1994] we [...] reported that the Army Chemical Corps conducted a classified medical research program for developing incapacitating agents. This program involved testing nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes, psycho chemicals, and irritants. The chemicals were given to volunteer service members at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland; Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; and Forts Benning, Bragg, and McClellan. In total, Army documents identified 7,120 Army and Air Force personnel who participated in these tests.  Further, GAO concluded that precise information on the scope and the magnitude of tests involving human subjects was not available, and the exact number of human subjects might never be known.<ref>[http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04410.pdf ''Chemical and Biological Defense''], Government Accounting Office, May 2004, p. 24.</ref></blockquote>