BMJ 2006;333:990 (11 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39027.603264.DB
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WHO suppressed evidence on effects of depleted uranium, expert says
Owen Dyer
1 London
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A World Health Organization paper on the risks to health from munitions that use depleted uranium has been called into question by a member of the editorial team that produced the report. Keith Baverstock, who worked as a WHO radiation expert, claims that research indicating a carcinogenic effect was deliberately suppressed.
Dr Baverstock said that he tried to submit research from the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute of the US Department of Defense that found evidence of genotoxicity from depleted uranium particles in the body.
But Mike Repacholi, the WHO scientist who oversaw the production of the 2001 report, Health Effects of Depleted Uranium, refused to include any mention of the research in the final report.
Dr Repacholi, who retired from WHO this summer, could not be reached for comment. But he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 1 November that he had excluded the research because of
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