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DONALD M- HAWKINS THOMAS L, DALRYMPLE rjohn McCarthy RICHARDS BAKER CHARLES R LEECH. JR, ALAN C BOYD RAYMOND G. ESCH JAMBS M MORTON. JR. JOHN W. HILBERT. LOUISE TOSl STEPHEN J STANFORD RAYA FARRIS THOMAS M GEORGE CRAJG J, VAN HORSTEN STEPHEN B MOSIER THOMAS S. ZARBMBA JAMES W BAEHREN WILLIAM L. PATBERG JOHN J SICIL1ANO ROBERTA BUNDA* MARTIN J. WITHERELL DOUGLAS G HAYNAM* GLENN L RAMBO MARY ANN WHIFFLE* FRED E FULLER (1902 19S1J LESLIE HENRY |19041976) ALSO ADMITTED IN MICHIGAN Fuller & Henry ATTORNEYS AT LAW ONE SEAGATE, 17TH FLOOR P.O. BOX 2QBS TOLEDO, OHIO 43603 (4191 2472500 TTLBCOFIBR (4191 247-2665 WRITERS DIRXCT DIAL NUMBBA (419) 247-2521 January 29, 1990 REGINA M JOSEPH MARK P. PRAJSNER SUE A SUXEMA DAVID R BA1NBRIDGE MARTIN D CARDIGAN PEGGY A WHIPPLE BARBARA J. STUTZ DONNA B POWERS DAVID A. OOLE CLARE C ARMBRU5TXR DENNIS A LYLE GRANT W WILKINSON THERESA R DtWTTT PETER J McCABE MICHAEL E BORN ANNEY KOESTER JOHN E. MAUNTLER ANDREW I RANAZEI* DANIEL T. ELLIS LANCE M. EBIPFBR NICHOLAS A 1AROCQ SUSAN A. SLAVIEFO MICHELLE M MORGAN JAMES S DBTUNG DWIGHT H MOREHEAD PRED J LANGE. JR. THEODORE R VOGT* DAVID W EENZLE WARREN D WOLFE* counsel Ms. Mary Szollasy Law Department N2 Union Carbide Corporation 39 Old Ridgebury Road Danbury, Connecticut 06817-0001 Re: Dear Mary: In compliance with the request by John Downey that I return to Union Carbide those copies of the Union Carbide PVC documents which were provided to us in connection with the Dendinger case, I am returning the seven (7) boxes of documents which were sent. We received these from Jim O'Gara. I do not know whether these are the only copies that exist, but they appear to be copies of originals. As we have discussed, some of the historical material here places the actions of the company in the early 1970s in proper context and can be helpful in litigation. The claim by plaintiffs in the Dettinger case was that Dr. Viola found that laboratory animals got cancer from exposure to VCM in 1970, and the companies did nothing to lower the level of residual vinyl chloride or place a warning label on their PVC products until 1974. The materials in these boxes, particularly the CMA Vinylchloride Subcommittee notes, indicate the careful research that was being done at the time, the fact that vinyl chloride was previously thought to be essentially harmless except for the explosive hazard, and the fact that Dr. Viola's research was done at exceedingly high levels of exposure. Thus, the normal level of exposures to which most workmen were exposed simply were not thought to be in the range known to be harmful. UCC 064075 know. Fuller & Henry TOLEDO, OHIO If we can be of any further assistance, please let me RAB:sg Enel. 2147-1 cc: John R. Downey, Esq. UCC 064076