The 17-member team also includes experts from UNEP, the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI), Spiez Laboratory (Switzerland), Italy's National Environmental Protection Agency (ANPA), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Greek Atomic Energy Commission, the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine, the Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Bristol (UK). The mission is being funded by the Governments of Italy and Switzerland.

The samples being collected will be analysed in detail in three internationally recognized laboratories Spiez Laboratory, (Switzerland), ANPA, (Italy) and Bristol University, (UK) - for radioactivity and toxicity. The final conclusions will be presented in a report to be published in March 2003.

UNEP Photo of Bosnian countryside.

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