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15A-15 CHEMICAL WEEK WEEKLY SI,*# SEP 2 1981 ifio& y fr o NoPC8lnktocmr? A Monsanto epidemiologist told last wik*s~Ainericsii Chemical 8oeiety meeting in New York that Ida review of the literature on human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBe) re veals no significant Hnk between such exposure and human cancer. The researcher, William It Galley, eonceded that occupational axpoaure to PCBe can cmiee mild dermatitis but he asaertad that the various spidemkdofkal etnrtUo of workers occupationally sxpoaad to PCBe are Incensisteat with each ether ead do aot support earlier rat feeding studies that indicated a fink between PCBe and cancer. Mon santo, a former PCS producer, ttiaoontinued production of the chemicals in 1B77. MOWS 011.771