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Um Mowsawto Chemical Company hi St. Louis ccMr. J. Greece -Krunun. Pit Mr. E. W. Lieben " k-0 Ho i> weobsr - ' " CGwlDEtHlAL November 14, 1955 To Mr* H* Be Patrick Reference Af Krurararich Plant Subject DEPARTMENT 246 (AROCLORS) It is the opinion of the Medical Department that the eating of lunches should not be allowed in this department for a number of reasons. (l) Aroclor vapors and other process vapors could con taminate the lunches unless they were properly pro tecfced. ' (2) When working with this material, the chance of contami nating hands and subsequently contaminating the food is a definite possiblity. (3) It has long been the opinion of the Medical Department that eating in process departments is a potentially hazardous procedure that could lead to serious diffi culties, While the Aroclors are not particularly hazardous from our own experience, this is a diffi cult problem to define because early literature work claimed that chlorinated biphenyls were quite toxic materials by ingestion or inhalation. In any case where a workman claimed physical harm from any contaminated food, it would be extremely difficult on the basis of past literature reports to counter such claims. m 1111 I I I ,<r. SUB JTG: SMB HOWS 093fcl& TOWOLDMONOOQ7919