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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA
DATE 1959 Nov 20
DOC NMA020
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Washington Post - Doctors Fired in Additives Fight
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THE WASHINGTON POST
By Ford Johnson
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Saunders and Overgard IED BY PAIN HIS RIGHT ARM
CAN OFFER LITTLE DEFENSE NEXT BULL RUSH
By Drew Pearson
published a paper showing successful and that all field industry or state health de-
that naphthylamine used studies by the
partments in
National Can- The public doesn't know it for dyes produced cancer in cer Institute in this
matters of en-
but the battle over food addi- dogs
would be
program vironmental and occupational
tives
and
;
cancer - suspected
Dr. Arthur Vorwald
stopped They were cancer
A few years later I showed
brought chemicals has been so cut dropped as director of the this same gentleman data in This event was
throat that four
Saranac
Laboratory
when
he dicating
a cancer
hazard
about for
by a complaint as I
[i doctors and
4 reported lung cancer men employed in another in- was officially told about my
scientists
:
could be induced by a chemi dustry that had retained him activities
regard
in their jobs when .;
cal dust of industrial impor as a consultant He advised
study-
they took firm
tance
:
me to keep out of this
ing conditions bringing about
stands against
Dr.
Robert Collier
Page lem
and shortly
prob- lung
there after
cancers
among
workera
certain
com-
who was eased out as medical notified me that my
employed in the chromate in-
appoint- panies and in-
director of Standard Oil of ment as associate professor dustry
acted stitutions inter-
New Jersey when he cam of industrial medicine at New Dr. Lanza apparently
ested in the
paigned for a major study of York University would not be the role of a lobbyist be
we continued use
inducing properties of renewed It was not renewed in a telephone conver
of these addi-
July 1951 tives and chem
Pearson
chemicals
|
| Last year an official of sation
I had-
| icals
, Battle of Doctors
of the large chemical com regard to this matter with
panies told me that they had the late Mr. O. F. Tarr vice
back- This is part of the real
|
fired
Dr. Smith a resident of En
their
medical
president
Mutual
Chemical
ground of the cranberry dis
because he was too interested I was told Dr. Lanza had
pute
It's been
brewing
for
iglewood
a
N. J. latterly
|
doing in |
carcinogens in
their
taken
this
step
in
behalf
of
long time and only came to research on food additives for ucts
the American chromate indus
a
head when the
;
Food the
American
Academy of NNuu-- Carcinogens are cancer
;
American Drug Administration was giv | trition
testified
at
length
ducing
on
substances
or agents
Due to these lobbying ac
en power by a recent act of this before the Interstate Com-
Cancer Stopped Congress to crack down on merce Committee
Work
tivities of Dr. Lanza continued Dr. Hueper not
farmers cosmetic companies In 1950. he
There
my field studies have
only
chemical
Na- food and chemical
companies
said the
were some attempted
come to
companies
Cancer
Institute
of
denials
denials
of
Dr.
Smith's
an state-
end end
since
1951
but
there
immediately without protract protract U S. Public Health Service
was for some reason serious
ment ed hearings in the courts was interference firings
established a program for the
But his testimony
with my experi-
The cancer firings of
doc tors was
study of environmental
substantiated by other doc mental work in the field of !
spelled chemi out in testical factors in cancer
tors One of these these
was
Dr.
W. occupational
cancer
Inter- said mony before the House
C. Within a few years Dr. A.
Hueper formerly with Dr. Smith I have
state Commerce Committee J. Lanza then director of
du Pont and now in charge wife and three children I
the when it tightened the Food | Institute of Industrial
of the environmental cancerigo entangled in this problem
Medi of and Drug Act last year The cine at New York
section of the National Cancer carcinogens and the result
doctors who were fired were told me that he
University Institute He wrote
is that have no job and no
Dr. William E. Smith tained by a grouphaodf cbheeemnicrael- My activities in fieldwork prospect of ever being able
dropped from New York Uni- industries to call
on environmental cancer for to continue in the field to
versity when he persisted in Surgeon General
upon the the U. S. Public Health which I have devoted my sei
warning of cancer hazards in Public Health
of the Sice Sice was discontinued entific career
industry
ject to
Service and ob- the latter part of the summer Thus is waged the battle of
requested eranberries Dr. William C.
Hueper der
studies conducted this
of 1951 1951 when I was
eranberries
chemicals and
program He stated to
dropped by du Pont when he that his objections
stop
such
activities
food additives over cancer
had been have no further contacts with
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