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minutes PVC SAFETY GROUP - HEALTH COMMITTEE Keller & Heckman Offices Washington, D.C.__________ Thursday, April 10, 1980 10:00 A. M. ATTENDEES: Ted R, Torkelson - CHAIRMAN - Dow Chemical U.S.A. 1603 Dow Center, Midland, MI 48640 Jerry Berger - Shell Chemical Company, One Shell Plaza, Box 2463, Houston, TX 77001 James T. DuFour - Stauffer Chemical Company, Westport, CT 06880 Cary L. Ford - Stauffer Chemical Company, Westport, CT 068S3 Joseph E. Hadley, Jr., Keller & Heckman, 1150 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Jim J. Hall - Conoco Chemicals, Box 2197, Houston, TX 77001 R. K. Hinderer - B. F. Goodrich Chemical Group, 6100 Oak Tree Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44131 John R. Lawrence - SPI, 355 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Robert W. Laundrie - General Tire & Rubber Co. One General Street, Akron, OH 44329 Mary WTagner Palshaw - Stauffer Chemical Company, Nyala Farm Road, Westport, CT 06880 D. W. Rverson - ICI Americas Inc. Wilmington, DE 19897 R. N. Wheeler, Jr. - Union Carbide Corp. Box 8361, South Charleston, W.VA 25303 1 - It was agreed that the SPI transcript of the OSHA conference be submitted to OSHA under its request for information due May 9. The transcript from the official OSHA recorder will also be considered for submission to OSHA so as to make it a part of the record. 2 - In reviewing the OSHA list of 11 requests for information (Federal Register December 18, 1975), the following were identified for review: (1) VC exposures at levels under 50 ppm (Dr. Torkelson will critique this area) (2) Transplacental Studies(Dr. Vance Kirkland of Shell will critique this area) (3) PVC Exposure - experimental (Dr. Dixler will critique this area) (4) Epidemiology - VC/'PVC (Dr. Cooper will critique this area) (5) Case reports on other tumors (No 7M& SfflaETYiQJwB*E PLASTICS INDUSTRY, INC. 355 Lexington Avenue New York, N.Y. 10017 (212)573-9400 SPI-11896 2 (6) Mutagenic Study (No data known) (7) Body Burden Measurements (No new data known) (8) PVC Measurements, and (9) PVC Measurements (Nick Wheeler will critique these areas) (10) Number of employees by occupation information (No overall industry data available through trade association. OSHA should have data as reported by individual companies). (11) No information available (12) Other data for consideration (Consider commenting the CIVO study). 3 - The papers delivered at the OSHA conference of March 20-21, was reviewed for their match against the February request as follows: Paper No. Fed. Register - Request No. 1 2 12 3 12 4 12 52 II 6 7 3 3 III IV V VI VII 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 19 12 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 N.C. 12 S&9 8&9 4 SPI-H897 -3- Papier No. Fed. Register - Recuest No. VIII 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 4 4 12 4 4 4 2 2 12 8&9 4 N.C. N.C. N.C. N.C. N.C. N.C. N.C. Hadley 4 - Consideration was given to the proposal by Boyd & Company to develop a VCM/PVC Toxicology literature file. It was agreed that Dr. Boyd would be invited to come to the April 18 meeting to further explain his proposal. 5 - Meeting dates selected for the continuation of this review are April 18 and May 1. Both of these meetings will be at the Keller & Heckman Offices in Washington, D.C. 6 - The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m. Respectfully submitted, / John R. Lawrence Technical Director SPI-U898