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Manufacturing Chemists Association Minutes of Meeting VINYL CHLORIDE RESEARCH COORDINATORS Hospitality House Arlington, Virginia April 4, 1973 URL 18224 MEMBERS PRESENT: j ** T. R.. Torkelson, CHAIRMAN T. R,, Aalto for Marvin Rosen Z. G,, Bell, Jr. W. D. Harris N. V., Hendricks C. A. Johnson, M. D. Flynt Kennedy W. A,. Knapp A. B.. Lindquist R. L.. Maycock W. E. McCormick W. E,, Rinehart George Roush, Jr., M. D. H. L. Schmidt, Jr. W. M,, Smith R. N. Wheeler The Dow Chemical Company Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. PPG Industries, Inc. UNIROYAL, Inc. Exxon Corporation The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Continental Oil Company Allied Chemical Corporation Stauffer Chemical Company Shell Chemical Company B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company Ethyl Corporation Monsanto Company Borden Chemical/Division of Borden, Inc. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Union Carbide Corporation OBSERVERS PRESENT: R. A. Asti J. J. Bergin C. H,, Dernehl, M. D. W. SFerguson W. R* Gaffey M. N. Johnson, M. D. D. A., Rausch B. M,, G. Zwicker Stauffer Chemical Company Ethyl Corporation Union Carbide Corporation Allied Chemical Corporation Tabershaw-Cooper Associates, Inc. The B. F. Goodrich Company The Dow Chemical Company B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company MCA STAFF PRESENT: A. C.. Clark K. D.. Johnson MCA MCA CONFIDENTIAL IJR L1822 2- - 1. Minutes of the Meeting of November 14, 1972 There being no corrections or additions offered to the subject minutes, they were ordered approved as distributed. 2. Amendment to Industrial BIO-TEST Laboratories, Inc* Contract The proposed protocol for an added experiment in the Industrial BIO-TEST project, in which food, water, and bedding would be present in the cages during vinyl chloride exposure, was approved without change. The Task Group asked that the necessary authorizations be expedited as much as possible. (The test protocol of the contract amendment implementing this action is included as an appendix to these minutes.) 3. Epidemiology Project Protocols Dr. W. R. Gaffey, of Tabershaw-Cooper Associates, Inc., presented a fuller exposition of the background, facilities, and staff competence of TCA, and explained how these would be employed in the performance of the proposed study. He stressed that only three or four TCA employees would see the raw data, thus assuring close control over confidential elements of such data. All data manipulation will be by computer, and input punch cards will be coded. In the performance of the study, TCA will work through plant contacts designated by company managements, who will be asked to assure their full cooperation with the project. TCA will, in each instance, provide such contacts, on a timely basis, with the data and records it will require, and with the schedule for their plant visitation. TCA was asked to submit proposed contract language, specifying with greater particularity the specific tasks to be performed under the basic contract, for review by MCA during the period required for Association approval of the project. CONFIDENTIAL URL 18229 Manufacturing Chemists Association Minutes of Meeting VINYL CHLORIDE RESEARCH COORDINATORS MCA Conference Room Washington, D. C. May 21, 1973 MEMBERS PRESENT: T. R. Torkelson, CHAIRMAN T. R. Aalto for Marvin Rosen Z. G Bell, Jr. F. J. Doyle for A. B. Lindquist M. N. Johnson, M. D. Flynt Kennedy W. A. Knapp R. W. McBurney, M. D. W. W. Madden R. L. Maycock W. E. Rinehart W. M. Smith R. N. Wheeler OBSERVERS PRESENT: C. H. Dernehl, M. D. D. P. Duffield, M. D. w. s. Ferguson D. A. Rausch B. M. G. Zwicker MCA STAFF PRESENT: B. M. Barackman A. C. Clark K. D. Johnson The Dow Chemical Company Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. PPG Industries, Inc. Stauffer Chemical Company The B. F. Goodrich Company Continental Oil Company Allied Chemical Corporation Diamond Shamrock Corporation Firestone Plastics Company Shell Chemical Company Ethyl Corporation Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Union Carbide Corporation Union Carbide Corporation ICI, Mond Division Allied Chemical Corporation The Dow Chemical Company B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company MCA MCA MCA CONFIDENTIAL URL 18230 2- - The meeting was called to develop recommendations of the Task Group with regard to a proposed presentation of data to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and a discussion with them of occupational health hazards associated with vinyl chloride. The initial discussion centered around such a conference, and the timing therefor. Tacit approval of such a concept had been assumed from the lack of unfavor able response to the MCA letter of March 26, 1973, and this judgment was confirmed by telephone discussions with major producers. Final action of the management contacts regarding the presentation is not contemplated until they have received and studied the recommendations of the Technical Task Group on Vinyl Chloride Research. A significant element for consideration by the Task Group was the development of an alternate presen tation in the event that the release of European data cannot be negotiated with reasonable dispatch. All present agreed that, if at all possible, such release be secured before the proposed NIOSH conference, so that this information can be included. Staff counsel briefed the Task Group on thier responsibilities and obligations under the confidentiality agreements now operative between MCA and the sponsors of the present project on the one hand, and the European group on the other. In brief, his admonishments were to the effect that absent permission from the European group, we should not volunteer reference to the European project or substantive data derived therefrom, but that, in response to direct inquiry, we could not deny aware ness of the project and knowledge concerning certain preliminary results. The scope of the proposed conference was discussed at length. The Task Group proposed to present published industry production and use data in terms of quantities involved, without a breakdown by percentages of the various uses, and without attempting to account for minor uses or losses. Attention is to be focused on monomer production and the manufacture of polymers, and on the occupational health hazards associated with these op erations. It was judged that possible consumer safety and CONFIDENTIAL -3- related potential hazards would not be pertinent to a presentation to NIOSH which is concerned with employee health matters. The proposed discussion outline distributed with the meeting notice next received the attention of the Task Group. A revised outline? amended to reflect the technical recommendations of the Task Group, was sub sequently edited by your Chairman and distributed under separate cover. Respectfully submitted, ^Kenneth D. Johnson, Ph.D. Secretary KDJtmb July 6, 1973 Minutes Subject to Approval r-o co CONFIDENTIAL