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CHEMICAL MARKETING REPORTER
Vol, 206, NO. 13 September 23, 1974
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The fathers of Iho cf Hu.*::** three worked in the plant for a year, about thirfv years ago. Another victim received indirect exj*>run- < a'lj-stos U*r only six months when slit* was a child ol four
!r other recent developments. British re searchers have reported that exposure at
levels specified in Federal workplace i*gu-
JjfitT m^Jead toTwwthHlonia. fce*tc. pir fhd otff cancers.
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imJii.idrs that nj'es*.jo!i of small quantities *
of the fibers can cause cancerous tumors j
As o result of these and other new rieveh opmem*. Dr. Irving J. Sehknff, heart of the y.(n<:i' Sinai f.aVnatory of tCnvirnnnient.il Science-, says there rftuW In* n epidemic of m- ss ihelinnia. The disease takes two to
four decades to develop, and asbestos pro duction today is ten time'; 10 i0*s lev* Is.
Later last week, union officials reacted bitterly to the publisher! reports. AnUmiy Marroechi. legislative director of the Oil Ch emicil & Atomic Workers Union said:
"We will be fighting from a different di mension. We'll he looking at a whole gener
ation of our children. If.; one thing to de
stroy a wo.KPr. It's another In destroy his family.''
Mr. Maz2occhi told tin* AVie York Timm his onion would challenge new F* dcra! as-
besios regulations on the ground that they
fail to protect the health of workers and Ibeir families.
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