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. 11/1/93 Q: When did Monsanto make an effort to check the levels of dioxin in workers' blood? Did Gaffey produce any memos on this subject? Q: On what basis did Gaffey conclude that maintenance workers were not exposed? Q: When did Gaffey know that maintenance workers were exposed? Q: When did Gaffey know that all Monsanto workers were exposed to one degree or another? Note: Suskind/Hertzberg listed maintenance workers as exposed. Why did Marcie Strauss do the verbatim & critique? Are there extant memos asking her to do it? Q: Why was 12/31/77 selected as the cutoff date for the Gaffey study? Q: May we see all drafts of the 3 Monsanto studies to see if Gaffey's comments appear on them? Q: Name everyone who worked on the Gaffey study in any capacity any of the epidemiological studies conducted by Monsanto while Gaffey was manager of epidemiology (including clerks, data gatherers, typists, peer reviewers, etc.), their dates of hire and termination with Monsanto, and their present address, if known. Q: Who peer-reviewed the 3 Monsanto studies? Q: What were the editors' comments on the Gaffey study? Q; When did Gaffey first realize he had included 4 workers as "unexposed" in your study who had been heavily exposed in a previous study? Talk to Rex Carr about why be believes Suskind pulled his name off the Gaffey study. I note that the Suskind/Hertzberg study make absolutely no reference to the Zack/Gaffey study; neither does Suskind's article, "Chloracne, 'the hallmark of dioxin i n t o x ication" Was there a rift between Suskind and Gaffey. At one point in the Kemner transcript, Carr says Suskind took his name off the Zack/Gaffey study because he knew there was something wrong with it. Ask for correspondence linking the Judge Hamilton to Monsanto? (Gerry Ortbals says she was required to have lunch with Monsanto's CEO before she could be approved for the bench.) Request the names of workers Gaffey omitted from his study and the reasons why he omitted them? Specifically ask Gaffey tor his data on the Soft Tissue Sarcomas that Fingerhut found? What was Gaffey's role in the 1980 press release? Did gaffey participate in writing or approving other press releases? What role did Gaffey play in the other Monsanto studies? Who did Gaffey report to? We need to ask this person about Gaffey's duties and responsibilities. What workers did Fingerhut include compared to Gaffey? Did she include maintenance workers as ''exposed" or not? A: She did not include them in her cohort and she did not use them as a control group. Q: Has Gaffey appeared as an expert witness in dioxin trials? Q: Please list all lawsuits that Mr. Gaffey has discussed with, participated in, provided data or information for, including the nature of those communications, data or advice. Q: Ask Gaffey for any correspondence or notes of conversations between him & Zack re the Nature allegations (in 2 articles) by Silbergeld & Hay. Q: Can we ask Gaffey about his relationship to Paul Wright? I believe Wright was the head of Gaffey's department and Wright went to jail for fraud. Did this set the tone for Mr. Gaffey's work? Rob Hager told me he could get us a specialist in "corporate culture" who would say that the "culture" of Monsanto could have had a hefty influence on Gaffey's conduct. F . TO hLE'I F'-H ILL P.03 cioser Iook at rom p of Harshaw's ne glected and decaying plants, and knocked its offer down to about $85 mil lion. Talks between Gulf and Engelhard collapsed in December. Enter Kaiser. The aluminum company posted a $115 million net loaa on 1982 tale* of $2-3 billion, and the only operat ing group that made any money was Industrial Chemicals. About one-third of vua uoiecuun ueviccs. um y cau )yHU, p igm cnu und inuirnutiunul irv n the biack this year. In the past few month*. Industrial Chemicals, the biggest lo*er--$1,7 mil lion in the hole so fur this year--has gone through the wringer. Its antimony business was sold to a Bolismn compa ny in April, and its cobalt salt business has just been shut down. Thu cobalt Inventories and customer lists were the director of Diamond's health and environmental affair*. But McBumey says that he is uruible to recall a letter referring to the 1955 chloracn work. 'Tm sure we would have asked for the records if we were offered them," he says. Mo tsst records. Diamond Shamrock has no knowledge of the w hereabouts of uny reports generated by the every year 1HK study or the 1979 IHF letter, that group' sales came from Fillrol, a picked up by Mooney Chemicals. Last spokesman Charles Yoakum said after catalyst company acquired by Kaiser month, the group's sales fore and its a search of the company's 1HP file. Me- early in 1982. Now Kaiser w anu to research and development people were Burney, whose service with Diamond . merge FQtrol with H a n haw, and the all let go; four product managers be Shamrock and Diamond Alkali dates 1 merged company will borrow $35 mil- came salesmen. back to 1963, asserts that he was "un * lion to compensate Gulf for H anhaw 's And Kirk, Harshaw's president, mads aware" that the IHF chlorscne stu d y "; greater book value. Over six yean, Ka> ' te r will pony up another $115-130 mil- boa for G ulfs 50% interest in the ioint venture By then, notes a bitter Harhaw manager, G ulfs top brass will himself dt / qcIo general manager of In dustrial Chemicals, rather than replace the one who recently left. In the opinion of colleagues, Kirk did that in hopes of at least keeping that job should the Kai took place. And a preliminary computer search of sealed document in the Agent Orange case doe* not show any IHF, test records, according to Victor > Yannecone. attorney for the plaintiffs. "ail be retired" ser deal succeed. Kirk says, however, The existence of the Diamond study f Kaiser is Visiting Cleveland this week that he "wouldn't be interested" in stay came to light after Chemical Week ae- > to review H & nhaV i dismal result of ing on just as a general manager. quired a copy of a 1963 report written * la ta H anhaw made $4Jb million--si- Kirk, 58, is described by subordinates by two former U. S. Public Health Ser- 5 most all from its International Div.--on as a despot ("Meetings are just a lec vwe physician, who visited the Newark <r 1983 sales of about $310 million. But ture," says one), and is largely blamed plant during a major outbreak of chlor this year, through May, Harahaw is for Harahaw' poor showing in hi* 10 i n e . In it, Donald J. Birmingham, one [ about $100,000 in the red Three divi years as president. In the past five of the report's author, referred to Dia sions posted heavy ksies: industrial years, Kirk has fired 11 general manag mond-sponsored studies that found "ar [ Chemicals, which makes hydrofluoric ers, and lost four comptrollers. "Being eas of high exposure to ehlorw&egens" add and derivatives; Metal Finishing, a a general manager at Harehaw," re by testing various intermediate* used to producer of electroplating salts and marks one who has held that title, "is s produce 2,4> T . Details of the experi equipment; and Crystal and Electronics, high-risk job." ments were not revealed to him, Bir mingham says. While the result* of the IHF research Dioxin health studies disappear are still unknown, a German study con ducted at the same time resulted in the discovery that dioxin generated during the production of 2,4,5-T caused chlor- . The extent of company knowledge of 2,4.5-T, a domestic herbicide and an acne and was also possibly linked to about the potential dangers of dioxin 1 Ingredient in Agent Orange. liver disease. A Jan. 1359 IHF bulletin to a key theme in the Agent Orange law The health studies in question were member companies cited an article suit brought by Vietnam veterans performed for Diamond Alkali between which detailed the dioximehloracn* link. claiming a host of illnesses due to their 1955 and 1962 by the Pittsburgh-based Along with Diamond Shamrock-- exposure to dioxi&eootaminsled defob- Industrial Hygiene Foundation (now In which was recently named aa a defen ants. And last week, Chemical Week dustrial Health Foundation) an indepen dant in a damage suit filed by area rear learned that the results of several dent consulting group supported by in denu and former workers at the nowdloxin-rciated health studies that could dustry that specializes in occupational quarantined Newark site--Monsanto, affect the direction of both the Agent health and safety. According to Richard another defendant in the Agent Orange . Orange suit and similar cases brought Geriach, the organization's vice-presi case, also commissioned IHF to research by former chemical company workers, are apparently missing and may have been destroyed. Included in the papers are lest data dent for technical services, all material relating to the animal studies was ei ther returned to Diamond Shamrock or destroyed in May 1979 when IHF insti the source of chloracne-producmg mate rial*. But the records of that research J project have apparently been destroyed, says Dan Bishop, a spokesman for the aad result of a seven-year health study that was begun in 1955 by Diamond Al kali (now Diamond Shamrock) to deter mine the causes of chloracrve, a skin m h . The health problems had devel oped among workers who manufactured 24>trtehk>ropbenoxycetie arid (2,4> tuted a new policy* for retaining docu ments. All that remains of the study, Geriach says, is a curd indicating the years in which the research was per formed. Diamond Shamrock did receive corre spondence from IHF in 1979 regarding company. Discovered Based on available cords, \ Bishop estimates that the study may have been performed in the early 1950s shortly after a reactor explosion led to a major chloraene outbreak at Momutrr to' 2,4.5-T plant in Nitro, W. Va. Docu T) and other chemicals in Diamond's fa the dispositon of several studies spon ments referring to the study were dts- \ cility at Newark, N. J. Dioxin is formed sored by Diamond Alkali, explain* Rich covered while combing file* in J 1 a by-product during th# manufacture ard McBurney, who recently retired as preparation for a lawsuit brought by 1 1 Asw 2, issuer*** Wart 1$ NOU-01-1993 E.R.F. 'I* . L*U( TO ALDER-HILL P.04 Vv (L r 'j / l M j TTwr worker at the Nitro facility, Ih*s on data lilt'd w ith the Texas Rnil- terms collected from filings under Sec <hoj) relates. ruud Commission. It has devised com tion 107 of NGPA. A company oflkinl who recently con- puter programs tle\r allow it to break Once u database is created, u consul ;tcd IHF wn* told that the record* of mil certain categories of information tant can "massage" the data fo~ a vari 1 ludy hud been destroyed, nccord- very quickly. As n result, its Natural ety of sendee. Among the mo*, pojm- r to Bishop, '*D>cy told u* that nil (his Information Sendee can track a Inr ones for chemical clients right now *y hnd left was n little white index host of transactions from every produc are jiricr projection service* and price d," ho says, ing well in Texas. Data include* the renegotiation service*. name of the buyer, the volume bought, Nearly all these consultant* offer the price paid, nnd the transaction date. some price projection service*. One pro sere turn to experts purchasing spot gas Interest in this tyjie of search is jection calls for gns prices to increase - building quickly. Acconling to the com- somewhat from the current market* jinny, at least a dozen chemical comjm* elenring prices of $3/Mcf, rising to nic* have upjironchrd it for such dntn, $3.50/Mcf in the intrastate market and midi companies are (nctvnxingly many in just the Inst month. The jirice to R50/Mcf in the Interstate market. in g natural gas directly from pro- for n custom search (foft/r) ranges uj>- But, as another warns, it's one thing to era In the pot market as prices fall wards from nl>out $65. buy gas at bargain prices nnd quite an I supplies Increase (CIF, Junr J, Crystal bull Other computer companies other to arrange transportation and to A But most chemical firms, Ion* ac- offer service* sjieeinlly for the inter secure regulatory approvals. tomed to buying only on longterm state m arket Foster nnd Associates, in Equally popular fa the closely related tfsets from their local pipeline, nre Washington, D. C., gathers dntn from service of advice on price renegotiation. loss to know what constitutes a filing* required under the Natural Gas John A. Brickhill, a vice-president at price when negotiating with a sup- Policy Act (NGPA). Under law, filing* Foster and Associates, says hi* firm is r for pot ira*. So increasingly are required even1 six months, hut getting more requests from chemical r*re turning to consultants ami spo some jiijieline* have already filed for companies for this service. One of the iled data service* to fain the lover- second-half 10811, allowing a glimpse at chief beneficiaries of this type of ser they need to avoid overpayments, the situation through the end of the vice, he thinks, h the smaller chemical he specialized data service*, w'hich year. plant. In fact, he soys, his firm recently computers to analyze stacks of data William Foster, the firm's princijwl, concluded deals that have "satisfied n public filings, can give chemical observes that most of the current inter both parties." - is an exact picture of what a pij>e- est in his data comes from jnpcllnes is willing to pay for the same (fas. that buy gus. But, he odds, the firm rineipal at Energy Planning (Housb t consulting firm, observe* that does have "some chemical clients." A Wa*hington rival that also relies on Bayer's plant resumes ideal companies are "realizing this NGPA filings is Du Pont and Associates. a fte r terrorist attack very competitive market in gas." And at least one firm specializes in data <6 fveonta. Some of the computer on high-cost gas. Resource Analysis & Following a terrorist attack that caused specialize in the intrastate m ar Management Group, headquartered in 150 million worth of damage, operation Energy Planning, a two-year old Oklahoma City, won permission in April are far from normal at the 27,000-tons/ >consulting to the gas industry, re- to offer data on prices and contract year acrylic-fibers plant operated by West Germany's Bayer in Lima, Peru. H o w d a te -b a s * fkm a ca n te ll users But this week the plant t getting back on track. The May 27 attack, in which w h a t p ip e lin e * i re p a y in g fo r g a s terrorists bombed power pylons to black jUwiMl Avenge - ---- -- out the entire metropolitan area for everal hours, was the w ont yet in the tsm____ ______EfrfL- HR ftp tlin *. * 6,569 4,296 atari 0 >-- ; . 2.668 2.7S7 *2*2 2,769 $2.16 2.26 3.58 332 3.49 338 073803 066021 094700 094612 086168 084988 Name Rtul Martlnez Wtbb County No. 1 Luf T. OUvtri No. 1 -A Ganaro Girci No. 1 sttH Garcia No. 3-C Erteil* Girda No. 2 cnpital city. The attack could have significant im plications for the business climate in Peru because it may signal a serious escalation in the country* leftist guer rilla movement, which has so far cwv centrated its activities in rural areas of the central Andean highlands. But while mmro* *** * .*r 1 \ * -r * . # * 4,717 12335 19,790 433 13.364 .2.203 27389 25,007 nrncomlrwital 2338 2310 14,618 3377 3.63 5.65 5.70 5.74 5.17 5.19 5.17 5.20 338 343 340 332 095223 087777 087688 086307 091463 088742 098711 094621 088390 088358 088357 086303 J.F. Wilder Hein No.1-70 S.J. Martin No. 3 -A S.J. M*rtin No. 1-A SJ, Martin No. 2 -A Brunl-Mintfil Trutt No. 2 -A Bruni-Mlnerat Trust No. 1--A Mareurio M irtinei No. 1 Vtquiflts Ranch Ltd. No. 1 SJ. Martin No. 4 -A Mayers GU No. 3--1 Mayers GU No, 2-1 M *y*ri QU No. 1 businessmen in Peru ay that they are concerned, there is no indication of cut backs in activity or investment m a re mit of terrorism. Initially, Bayer will restart its plant at one-third capacity. During the black out, the terrorists, apparently familiar with the layout, overpowered guards and entered the 120,000-square-meter facility from four directions, planting numerous bombs around installations. The terrorists presumably belonged te < e n e * w * < 0 '* # u ~ mK S lu m lM ,CA>! W CwW 20 S' A m atter of record Your story, "Dioxin health studies dis appear" {June 9, p .lj), is incomplete with rv|K!ct to the status of dioxin re search done for Monsanto by the Indus trial Health Foundation. This research, on hie ut the West Virginiu Health Dept,, is |>art of seuied court records in a class-action suit in Charleston, W. Va. Dun R. Bishop Director, Environmental Comm. Monsanto St. Louis, Mo. Reader Bishopfails to note that the IMF documents in the HVW Virginia suit avrc produced not bp Monsanto but by a gonm inent witness in the Agent Orange pretrial hearings. )'.; ."! Support denied -V ,; ..; - . The table in your cover story, "Chemi yV ..-. cal Industry Councils" (June i, p. 9), i. * presented incorrect data on the Indus trial und Environmental Assn, of South Curolina. This orgunizution does not a have "Chamber of Commerce supirt." The state chamber hus not been in volved in the formation of this organiza $ 1 V M "rts'*-V?.V.:. ^.v>V tion, und we do not endorse it. Insteud, we encourage the chemical manufactur ers in South Carolina to participate *****Vr -*4.- through the . committee to chamber's meet their environmental regulatory and legislative needs. Lowell Reese Executive Vice-President South Curolina Chamber of Commerce Columbia, S. C. 1