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'AS<**> Jto. ^flj lai DeathsPinfcl'^eltaiiAreas*1 \iy. i^.'sA ' 'v --* -................. -- ***** ' : ^r-v ; ||FAMHERST, Mass. (UPI) 4-f Cancer deaths of > The Boston Globe reported. Sunday that the people who worked at the Monsanto Co. plant in , university .research team believed more studies of, Springfield, Mass., may be linked to exposure to specific work-^sites were needed' to determine if the ] materials used in specific work sites, a new study.' deaths were definitely related to exposure to vinyl 1 Isays; "s'" ' ;*j chlorides. ,,--:j - > '-fry \ fc A t Spokesman for Monsanto^which has world ;Dr. Rosenmansent a letter to the company's.plant headquarters in St. Louis, said the chemical company manager saying previous studies did not investigate would wait until released! a further study of cancer^specific work areas. *`I think these studies are 'casesUt the Springfield plant before addressing Revindications: there are problems with specific work v \ questions raised by the University of Massachusetts -sites in Monsanto," he wrote, - 'i -v*'* rstudy; - ;' ' "^S *`No me is saying every job in Monsanto is ; '/j.?? Thit' study was the fifth ' conducted at the fhazardous," he said. But he added, "There are strong ( Springfield plant. A team of researchers investigated -; indications that workers have developed disease as a bthe deaths of. 110 men who used to work there. They ^consequence of working" at areas where they have * ^aidsiwwe caused by cancer that might have been !|been exposed to the chloride.. >. ?>,. pwork-reiaiedj -V f ^ t study was of former employees who worked at Dr. Kenneth Rosenman said, "People who worked ^the; plant while the vinyl chloride and polyvinyl cjthsre longer, who had a longer latency period, had chdoride were used between 1948 and 1975. - hlgher risks of dying of all malignant neoplasms." Dr. . The team said the former workers bad mouth, Ttosenmkivdirected the study. digestive and lymphatic cancers. The team found one Monsanto's epidemiology manager, William . death due to a liver cancer associated with exposure Gaffey of St. Louis, said, "I think we'll know within a to vinyl chloride. .. ;,*i couple ' of weeks whether there realty is any Older workers also were found to have a great i connertkm between these excesses 'and any past risk of contracting cancer, even with a short exposu expororeito Re plant." ^ 'V'jg