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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA)
DATE: 1959 Nov 20
DOC#: NMA020
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The Washington Post - Doctors Fired Additives Fight
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THE WASHINGTON POST Friday, Nov. 20, jclp |3 1 5
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Doctors Fired in Additives Fight
By Drew Pearson
published a paper showing successful and that all field industry or state health de that bcta-naptuhylamine (used studies by the National _Can partments in matters of en
The public doesn't know It, for dyes) produced cancer in cer Institute In this program vironmental and occupational
but the battle over food addi dogs,
would be stopped. They were. cancer.
tives and cancer - suspected Dr. A r t h u r Vorwald, "A few years later I showed "This event was brought
chemicals has been so cut dropped as director of the this same gentleman data in about by a complaint, as I
throat that four _ _ ___ d o c t o r s and
J
Saranac Laboratory when he dicating a cancer r e p o r t e d that lung cancer men employed in
hazard another
for in
was
officially
told,
about
my
scientists lost
could be induced by a chemi dustry that had retained luiit activities in... regard to jttudy.-..
their jobs when
cal dust of industrial impor as a consultant. He advised ing conditions bringing about
they took firm
tance.
me to keep out of this prob lung cancers among workers
stands against
Dr. Robert Collier Page, lem, and shortly there after employed in the chromate in
certain c o mpanies and in
who was director
eased out as of Standard
medical Oil of
notified me that my appoint ment as associate professor
dustry
"
stitutions inter
New Jersey when he cam of industrial medicine at New 'Dr. Lanza "apparently' acted/
ested in the
paigned for a major study of York University would not be in the role of a lobbyist, becancer-inducing properties of renewed. It was not renewed. |cause in a telephone convejY
continued use of these addi
chemicals.
"Last year an official of one Ration'on July 25, 1851, 1 had
tives and chem
IBattle of Doctors
of the large chemical com-'in regard to this matter with panies told me that they had (the late) Mr. O. F. Tarr, vice
icals.
I
This is part of the real backi
Dr. Smith, a resident of F.n- fired
their
medical
director president, Mutual Chemical Co., I was told Dr. Lanza had
ground
of
the
cranberry
dis iglewood,
\.
J.,
latterly
doing
because he was too interested in carcinogens in their prod- taken
this
step
in
behalf
of
pute. long
It's been time, and
brewing for a oniy came to ;research
on
food
additives
for ucts."
the American chromate indus-
a head when tin Food and the American Academy of Nu| Carcinogens are cancer-pro-jtf/-
Drug
Administration
was
giv t r i t i o n ,
testified
at
length
on
iducing I ,,
substances or , e
agents.1 "Due to ti\ties, of
these lobbying scDr. Lanza," con-
en power by g recent act of this before the Interstate Com! G an cer W o rk S to p p e d |tirlUed Dr. Hueper, "net only
Congress to crack down on farmers, cosmetic companies,
merce Committee. "In 1950 " he said,
"the
Na
j
There were some attempted ,r- ' f i e ` d
studies have come to
food and
chemical
companies Itionai Cancer Institute
of
the 1-denials
of
Dr.
Smith's
state-jIawnasenfodr
since some
1351, but there reason serious
immediately, without protractj L\ S. Public Health Service ment. But his testimony wasiimierferenee with my experi-
ed hearings in the courts. established a program for the substanliated by other doc-mental work in the field of
The cancer firings of doc1study of environmental chemi- tors. One of these was Dr. W.-occupational cancer."
tors was'spelled out in test! | cal factors in cancer.............. C. Hueper, formerly with'... Dr. Smith also saiaf 'T have "
mony before the House Inter "Within a few years Dr. A. du Pont, and now in chargeia wife and three children. I
state Commerce Committee J. Lanza, then director of the of the environmental "cancer jgot entangled in this problem
when it tightened the Food Institute of Industrial Medi (section of the National Cancerjof carcinogens and the result
and Drug Act last year. The ;cine at New York University, Institute. He wrote:
'is that 1 have no job and no
doctors who were fired were: told me that he had been rei "My activities in fieldwork-prospect of ever .being able
Dr. William K . Smith, tained by a group of chemical on environmental cancer (for to continue in the field to
dropped from New York Uni industries to call upon the 'the U. S. Public Health Serv- which 1 have-devoted my sei-
versity when he persisted in Surgeon General (of tlje U. S, ,icej was. discontinued, dunng^eniifie career." ..........
warning of cancer hazards in Public Health Service) and obthe latter part of the summer Thus is waged the battle S i1"
industry.
ject to studies conducted un;of 1951 when I was requested cranberries, chemicals and
Dr. William C Hueper, der this program. He stated To stop such activities and Toed additives over cancer,
dropped by du Pont when he that his objections had been have no further contact* with cyriiiu. i9S9, Bensmd.cau. in.
Harry Homeownor Says: