The following is a summary of the National Research Council/National A
cademy of Sciences report entitled Toxicologic Assessment of the Army'
s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersions Tests. The report was prepared in r
esponse to a request from the U.S. Army to assess the risk from exposu
re to zinc cadmium sulfide from the Army's dispersion tests conducted
during the 1950s and 1960s.