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* . > ._*** New Rules Set to Reduce IO araFUCBHj' rui vnc amuum - ------------ - or cancer-causing vinyl chlo-1 posed to the widely used plai- ride gas to ..which factory I lies industry gas were develop- M orko-s may' be exposed. Onc)ina a r,c but fatal. form of Health {20. . _ -----1 The Society of the Plastics , Industry, Inc., filed a suit in ` Second U.S Circuit Court o'f j Appeals in New York asking ifor the judicial review of the OSHA standard. | It said th standard an- j nounccd yesterday is unrcalis- - tic and It will be impossible I for most If not all of the in- dustr.v to meet it. < Last April 5, OSHA nrn 'nounced that workers could be 'exposed to no more than 50 parts per million of vinyl chlo- . ride gas in the air and pro posed eventually reducing the exposure level to rero. : During length;' hearings on the matter -the industry claimed it would be impossible' to meet a detectable level of the gas inside Jthe factories. ' Under the nt-w regulations, i effective Friday, Use present. 50-part-per-million exposure' level will be allowed until Dee. 31. i After. next Jan.' lj workers maybe exposed to nor more than 1 part per million! average over eight hours of exposure and no concentration higher than 5 parts per mil- lion over any 15-minute pe riod. { After Jan. 1 of 1B7S, the same exposure levels will be required except that workers exposed to anything stronger will have to wear respirators. Firestone Plastics Co. said the pew rules put the industry "on a collision course with** economic disaster" An official, of the firm said the restrict tions would "throw 3 million jobs down the drain." AP00001847