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A E.D. OF MISSOURI n im m w smhshtch 11/20 ''90 15:20 P. 2 . U522 , aTUHDAY, NOVCMtiR 17,1990 9C Monsanto Seeks EPA Study I MW 4,4 CUbt in moti ovens, ric a n te r * . topeta to cat costs, parent of the at 275,offer ft Mprtrttoty held atti ta m oon worts daily ta the bdthreebeta*Laid rito rn i woiton totora. tf Path* Merger ewty formed MOMere fired ttneeGiaatoo twoweeks ago. dspttcatoo la o tatoacstm id. mmusiredens Corp** Europe and makes e? P ro ject Company Claims `False Controversy9Over Tests .Jef*r v iw rT J i l f i f 0 uU<A, .ktthig that they hare b*m unfairly mailed by Of(N 0ott*0m em Ittff wrtroamealal froups -- men aa Greenpeace -- and aa MoasaatoCo. breaks* the federal gorernmsot to make SPA chemist, Gito Jetottae,where comments do aot reflect a Impartial revitw" of two tatts of w rt t n tapered to IPA parity. dloxn to Mttte to t Moonato sofa ts a `t t i n eaetreetnoT "The Imparila] aerine [by the federal government]would surrounding too studria* accuracy. swre to put aa e&d to tata Mise cootroveny," Moorento Dtoda b a toric byproduct of some cbantfeal proeariri. wild la aa Oct 1 Utter to SPA "Absent web aoreremeat Memento waatt the studies, which warn cond&etod by dttoa, Monetato 01 cooriaue to suffer damate to to tbe company, to be tiamliwid by & EnWrocaemal Piw rtpuiorioa." toetloa Agency sad the Ntdoaal lata- -- ........... -------------------- . M enato sente copyofthe totterto tuta of Occupattooat Safety and toaPott-Dtopatch. Beaith. Critics contend that Memento's re- C ritic s contend that The Metersaid that oemorudum writtea earner thlp year by Jenkins search was flawed. Monsanto'i rssssrch The studies, published la adeatlftc journals la 1W0 tad 10, failed to _w__a_s__f_la_w__e__d_. contained "untrue afiegsfloBS'* Mat . the company had deliberately under* reported rates to cancer to the Nitre find aay c&roalc health effects of di o rte n . oxin exposure other than ehlorac&e, a serious form ofacae, "Notwtthflaadtat our efforts to correct the record, these Monsanto's research tavtovre w orttri at MoarestoY breelere charset hare been repeated la newspaper *c* Nitre, W. Vl , plant who ere expend to dioxin. The counts end area before a coopmaioeal subcommittee," company analysed cancer-related deaths of employees the letter told. . ho manufactured 1AS-T, a bertrtddt that a te as aa Jenkins didn't return phone can* la previous interviews, Ingredient in the defoliant Atent Orange used la the Vtat- she has mid that noma to her arguments ere taken from earn War. atalanto' chante la the Stnresos cese. Moaaaniocited the studies ta defendinga reft brought by Dea Bbhop, a Memento spokesman, nid SPA has not residents of Sturgeon, Mo. Is 1071. They rialmod that their responded to the computer's letter. health had been impaired after a railroad accident that "These ellegarions hare bota around for a while," n ld caused a spill of 19*000felloes of vood prsrervattre tad a William & Fhrte&d, aa SPA official, ta a telephone later- tiny amount--estimated at a teaspoon --of dtcadn. Ho rune SPAI office to health and environmental Za l$S7, aa Dltaoli circuit court Jury la BeUtriUe, award ed $20,000 to a family how farm as near the aeddeat Fhriaad added that a NIOSH identist Marilyn Finger- site and $1 each to t t other ptalatlttL But tee jury am hut, Is oeoductiag a aariooal study to workers exposed to awarded $16.2$ miifioa la tmattire damages.. . dioxin. "Her analysis includes the o rten at Nitre," Far- Monsanto appealed the punMre damages verdict to the lead tori. "Her ttsdy in re-examine this. The study is Illinois Fifth Dlttrict Appellate Court la MountVernon, SL under review [by tge&cy stoeatots)." Ftngeifcut didn't re Moosesto mid to Nitre orfcere' dtoHa ttudtaa are ac- turn poos retta. Oil Prices Hike Steam Heat Rates By MiHt 8cMnkminn Asteep boottInfusito] priore due to the Persian Outf c ito has prwapted It mast aa 11 perceot tacrene la steam heal ra ta for many downtown commercial and resWeatlal buUdiagfc A temporary stx-moatt m e boost was approved Friday by a s M-fitata Development Agency's hoard for more than three-fourths to Bi-State's 200 steam heat custtoaere. The reta boost will be retreactfre to last mouth. The litre could lamp tree higher or could drop -- during the stxmonth period escorting to ftuctfia* tore ta pries to foal oik which la burned to produca the ttaaa. m.fitaie costraett with SL la tti that would bateo m ap. BMtato "wfil monitor the applica- bob re mere procedures n r correctares os a monthly batte for the dura to toe emefpwv y ," g briefing Thaboard voted unaalmorety to ap* prore the II per cato plan, which wee recommended by Bt-Ststo t xocuttr t directorJohn Urey. The bored s e t re Speaking again the rere were representatives ef P lata Sqtaro Bohbya Stewart, F irn Sgaero 1 agar, trged the board to ttmtt the boost ta otoy three months. "We to u t know ta re going ta a m e n to the Middle Hast,** toe sataT nava is ao s n dowalowa to drop riaam heat and adopt afieraatire hearing methods. } The am result, me said, would be lere buttaare end revenue for Thar* m alaadfibfiata. Stewart am comptainnd that to1 Stats was dot imperial a similar rate boost oa mchltad Interruptible coa lm e n to steam heat -- which hare hearingsystems that eta choose to use totter team or astarel gre la a torea month d speadlag oa which it to response, Leary noted ta aa to* tanrtsw aftar the meetlag that the toi torrupribtocuatomeiv*re ta are detertttaed bya formula tied to the price of aetsral gre so to keep rtcom ratas c o re p e riS re . iteitl m 000404 FROM E.D. OF MISSOURI 11/23/90 14:44 p 1 V 4 1 IC 1 IU 0 1 1 Monsanto On Dioxin I indlga * .\ - *t U ' * 0 ,\t By WiWtm H.Prtivootl M 'O fM e ft WnNnfton turaw WASHINGTON --Greenpeace tod whistle-blower at the Environment tai Protection Agency a n accusing Monsanto CO. of fraudulently under statins the health risks ot dioxin. Both the international envtronmen* tal organlatlon and the EPA chemist called upon the agency to conduct an Independent evaluation of what they say are flawed Monsanto studies Indt catlnt that dioxin has little health effeet on humans. The E|>a beralst, Cate Jenkins, also orged a i tmloal Invaetigation of the firm, all Ins that It covered up evidence of d xlo's tu effects. A M oniai :o spokesm an said Wednesday tt t there appeared to be criminal lo dry under way and eo declined to omment on Jenkins' chargee. But the cot peny said that Green* peace's ailsgi tons were untrue and that the Arm nod by the studies He noted that M isanto sent a letter to lee DIOXIN,Page 11 | ug *tn Dioxin saysthat sti lies dona for Monsanto in 1910and 19 1made several key odea title mistik t. In two si diet, for example, some Prom page ona people exm ed to dioxin were includ ed in the stror group. . the EPA last month asking It to audit Because sgulaton relied on the the studies to clear the air. Monsanto s idles as proof that dioxin Jenkins, a chemist In the Result* Is not too 4 ngeroua to humans, EPA tory Development Branch at EPA, should revt :e all decisions based on wrote a memo Nov, IS to the agency's thoeestudU .Greenpeacesaid. Office of Criminal Investigations ac Thegrou also called upon EPA to* cusing the company of a "long pattern set up a a lonal dioxin elimination of fraud" concerningvdloxln contami program, i ich would phase out use nation of a vide range of Monsanto of chlorine i the paper industry and Corp. products,is veil as health stud chlorinated compounds in pesticides ies of Monsanto's dloxln-exposad and would* 'tam illy ban some wood worken." preservatlv i. - The memo indicates that Jenkins, Dan R. 1 shop, director of corpo KnownMUs EPA as a whistle-blower, rate corns .stations at Monsanto, M N O ftM with agents of the Nation- said that n t of the allegations by wStioroement Investigations Center, Jenkins an Greenpeace were not iftlCh conducts EPA's Criminal inqul* new. He ml that Jenkins'memo bad rfis.PA-refused to comment on been based irgely upon claims made tt was conducting a criminal Inathree-y sr trial in Belleville. IU., UotL ;where real ante ot sturgeon, Mo., while, Greenpeace Is relfess* sought dan iges for exposure to a reporttoday that, it saya, exposes small amoti t of dioxin after a train duleat and manipulated sot* derailment 11079. 10lMonsanto's studies of the tf* In her mi no, Jenkins wrote: "Mon- ef dioxin on workers at its plant In nnto cover d up the dioxin contami- .XrVa. An explosion at tha plant hatloflofai derange of Its products," tff*Mgegpcsed worker! to dioxin. Including ysoi, the disinfectant. 8K a Gr#eopeace report b being re* Members oi he Canadian Parliament I ttS I In .Washington and at dioxin- recently bt ;an an Investigation of sites around the coun- product con imitation* she wrote. _Times Beach, Mo. The mem also maintained that, ac 0hmm report, written by forB a in Co. chemist Pat COstnar, cording to sternal Monsanto docu ments, tam; es of herbicides submit ted by the a npiny to the Department of Agrlcultc e In the 1970s hid b e n "doctored" nd that highly contami nated am p is had not been submit ted. The be >lddee were used in the Agent Oran e defoliants dulng the Vietnam Wi . Tha mal criticism In Jenkins' memo and it Greenpeace report is. targeted at ia I9f0 and 1993 studies ofMonsantt eorkere, which were su pervised by >r. Raymond SusUnd of thaXettarln Institute la Ondnoatl. s ?sc < s2 m m 3 I 000405