Thank you, Dr. McDiarmid, for joining us today.
As you're very well aware, we had struck an independent review body of different scientific experts here in Canada to review the existing literature surrounding depleted uranium. That report was peer reviewed, and we've been very fortunate to have some of those scientists join us here during our committee hearings. We've also had scientists who were independent of this process come to share their viewpoints with us, as well as veterans, but we're particularly fortunate to have you as someone who has studied veterans who have DU fragments, so thank you very much for joining us today.
I have a quick question about the conclusions of your research and then I'd like to turn to the conclusions of the report.
In your research you studied just under 1,800 urine samples, and of those, only three showed any evidence of depleted uranium.