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Manufacturing Chemists Association Minutes of Meeting VINYL CHLORIDE RESEARCH COORDINATORS Hospitality House Arlington, Virginia April 4, 1973 MEMBERS PRESENT: T. R. Torkelson, CHAIRMAN T. R. Aalto for Marvin Rosen Z. 6. Bell, Jr. W. D. Harris N. v. Hendricks C. A. Johnson, M. D. Flynt Kennedy W. A. Knapp A. B. Lindquist R. L. Maycock w. E. McCormick W. E. Rinehart George Roush, Jr., M. D. H. L. Schmidt, Jr. W. M. Smith R. N. Wheeler The Dow Chemical Company Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. PPG Industries, Inc. UNIROYAL, Inc. Exxon Corporation The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Continental Oil Company Allied Chemical Corporation Stauffer Chemical Company Shell Chemical Company B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company Ethyl Corporation Monsanto Company Borden Chemical/Division of Borden, Inc. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Union Carbide Corporation OBSERVERS PRESENT: R. A. Asti J. J. Bergin C. H. Dernehl, M. D. W. s. Ferguson W. R. Gaffey M. N. Johnson, M. D. D. A. Rausch B. M. G. Zwicker Stauffer Chemical Company Ethyl Corporation Union Carbide Corporation Allied Chemical Corporation Tabershaw-Cooper Associates, Inc. The B. F. Goodrich Company The Dow Chemical Company B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company MCA STAFF PRESENT: A. C. Clark K. D. Johnson MCA MCA C0NF IDENTIAL ucc og35g9 -3- 4. Management Approval of, and Commitments of Support for, the Epidemiology Project The Task Group agreed that requests to their managements for project approval and support should be couched in terms that would permit MCA to execute a contract with Tabershaw-Cooper Associates, Inc. without waiting for 100 percent participation of all sponsors of the animal exposure project. It was proposed that requests for such support identify a maximum contribution which might be required if a minumum number of companies agreed to participate, and full expenditure of all con tingency occurred. A minimum cost figure would also be listed, calculated on the assumption that no contingency funds are required, and that all companies participate. A suggested company commitment form was drafted that would accomplish this goal, i.e.: " Company commits itself for its prorated share of the costs of an epidemiological study of employees exposed to vinyl chloride monomer, on the basis of total project costs not to exceed $92,340, and with our contribution not to exceed ." Mr. Clark agreed to expedite MCA management actions necessary to secure approval of the project, and author ization for Tabershaw-Cooper Associates to proceed with the performance of the study. 5. Vinvl Chloride Research Analysis Committee The Secretary informed the Task Group of the invitation of NIOSH to nominate candidates for appoint ment to research analysis committees on a number of chemicals, including vinyl chloride. It will be the function of these committees to review available data on these chemicals to identify any gaps in such data that may limit the ability of NIOSH to develop fully adequate criteria documents. Such gaps might then be filled by directed research. Drs. Bell, Rinehart, and Torkelson were named by the Task Group as appropriate MCA nominees. They were asked to submit brief biographical sketches to the CONFIDENTIAL UCC 083590 5 APPENDIX TEST PROTOCOLS extracted from the Industrial BIO-TEST Contract Extension "This experimental group is to consist of 100 rats of the same sex, to be exposed to vinyl chloride vapors at a concentration of 5,000 ppm v/v. Food, water, and bedding are to be present in the cages in which th animals are exposed during the entire exposure period. Otherwise, experimental procedures, including exposure conditions, their documentation and control, and the handling, observation and necropsies of animals shall conform to those described in the Protocol incorporated by reference in the subject agreement, and hereby so incorporated in this agreement extension." KDJ:mb Ucc 083591