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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE 1311 GENEVA 27 - SWITZERLAND Telfgr.: UNISANTE-Ctnoa In reply please refer to; OCH Pr4re de rappetor la reference T*l. 34 60 61 TAlex. 27831 1311 QENEVE 37 SUISSE Ttl**r.: UNISANTE-Gcncvc 7 October 1977 Dear Dr TgjskeTson. In response to your letter of 22 September, 1977, I should like to point out that the Office of Occupational Health of the World Health Organization is proceeding with development of a literature review document concerning vinyl chloride. When materials are available for release you will be promptly notified. Such a document would of course, incorporate all pertinent information regarding toxicity, carcinogenicity, etc. which is available to the literatur and. therefore would in all likelihood contain reportable results of the animal inhalation studies conducted, and which are still being conducted, in Bulgaria (as mentioned by you) . In as much as you are the Chairman of the MCA Technical Panel on Vinyl Chloride Research there should be good opportunity for you to keep us informed of any new. or relevant documents concerning vinyl chloride. In this connexion, therefore, we would appreciate receiving anything you consider appropriate. I do look forward to an interesting two years during my detail to WHO. and once I become used to the transition from the United States mores and culture to those here there should be every opportunity for self satisfaction and sense of accomplishment. Please give my best regards to our mutual acquaintances at DOW, and should you or they be in this neighbourhood at any time, and with a schedule which permits a visit, do not hesitate to notify me. Yours sincerely Dr T.R. Torkelson The Dow Chemical Company Bennett Building 2030 Dow Centre Midland Michigan 48640 United States of America Dr E.J. Fairchild, II Scientist Office of Occupational Health CMA 005004