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T] DOW CHEMICAL U.S.A. August 7, 1979 G. Bell, Jr. - PPG J. Benya - Ethyl Corp. D. Harris - Uniroyal D. Kary - Shell M. Smith - Air Products N. Wheeler - Union Carbide cc: J. T. Seawell - CMA J. Stafford - Imperial Chemicals The attached article was just received from'John Stafford. All the more reason for us to get on with the extension of the Equitable study. I haven't had time to read and digest this paper but it seems to me that the authors are too quick to make cause-effect relationships with vinyl chloride. If effect has been observed, it could just as well be due to some other factor than vinyl chloride monomer. This is particularly true because cardiovascular deaths were not increased in any study of VCM populations. Tour comments please. Sincerely yours, T. R. Torkelson, Chairman CAM Vinyl Chloride Research Coordinators TRT/mp Attachment AN OPERATING UNIT OP THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY UCC 057527 Bessemer Road 'Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AU 1HD Telephone Welwyn Garden 23400 (STD Code 07073) Telex 264251 ii i i^kpi iai Chemical Industries Limited From j Stafford Division Manager Health & Environment Protection DS0-107 Dr D G Paddle Dr W G F Adame (5) Dr D P Duffield Dr Brian Bennett Dr T V Best Dr D W Plaster Mr G J Sleddon Dr J Stafford (6) Plastics Division CP'** ** Dr T R Torkelson - DOW > Dr H N Johnson - BFG Mr J Lawrence - SPI Mr Nakamura - Japan PVC ^ AA ssocmia tion Your ref. Our ref JS/AM/DSO-107 Tel ext 3162 Oste 26 July 1979 SWEDISH EPIDEMIOLOGY IN PVC PROCESSING INDUSTRY At the APME Meeting in Sweden on June 8, Kemanord gave us a copy of an epidemiological survey in the Swedish Processing Industry. Dr J T Carter of BP Chemicals has had this study by Holmberg et al translated from Swedish to English. You may care to have a copy. The observed increase in heart infarction is worrying. ucc 057528