Fed Regist. 2009 May 7;74(87):21258-60.
This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations concerning presumptive service connection for a certain disease based on the most recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Institute of Medicine committee report, "Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2006" (Update 2006). This amendment is necessary to implement a decision of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that there is a positive association between exposure to herbicides used in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era and the subsequent development of AL amyloidosis. The intended effect of this amendment is to establish presumptive service connection for AL amyloidosis based on herbicide exposure.
本文件根据美国国家科学院（NAS）医学研究所委员会的最新报告《退伍军人与橙剂：2006年更新》（《2006年更新》），修订了退伍军人事务部（VA）关于基于某种疾病的推定服役关联的裁决条例。此次修订是为了执行退伍军人事务部部长的一项决定，即越南战争时期在越南共和国接触除草剂与随后发生的AL淀粉样变性之间存在正相关关系。本次修订的预期效果是基于除草剂接触情况确立AL淀粉样变性的推定服役关联。
