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c if I S- said be <fid not know what, if any. netieon had been taken within the company s n Several chemical finns, teetedifij? the reach of any report* McCormick might Bm T. Goo$rkh Co., toi* of preliminary have made on tbe confidential MCA meet bat sterJBcaat data licking exposure to ing:) rtnyi-chjcrfd* c*s to a rare Hear cuwr. Tbe MCA spokesman mid today that bat tbe information nt not made public the Jan. 30 meeting apparently wo tbo for more than * ytat. first at which chemical firms in this coun While ' atk&ftwiedgttg that the dw>- trovers*! inform*Uon hinting at a link between the cheroicsl and can- car * d^russcd. at a meeting of in* dustry rt-oresccutive* cm Jan. 30, 1673. a try learned of tbe European research into a posable liver cancer produced by ex* pocure to vinyl chloride. Ho also claimed (bat tbe Easopean research was reported u being of "tuch quality** and com tpofctsmas for the Menafrccuriag Chem parable !q pdrciilic research work done ist* Association (MCA) said the .&- in American laboratories. -_ wpw fiiuq that provided the informa Asked about this point today, tbe pn^ tion haasted (had it bo kept coofidwilial. lie-relation* spokesman for Goodrich And a spokesman for Goodrich would again *tre#wd tbe fina'a position that in acknowledge only that a representative of early 1973, tbe Mafiosi research was *Wot the cos>fi7 ttimM **oe or there complete** and the researcher's finding* meetings" at which the ademiik findings were riiKooctosree.'Mle said be was not were discussed. aware that the prtaSdtnl of the chemical Earlier this swsrtti the precedent of the division of his firm had said be was ha* Goodrich chemical division. Anloa Vtt- ware of MaHonis wprit until this year. tone. said the furst be knew of a study . Tbe pobitc-frlattOR* man at MCA said establishing u apparent link between ex* * there had ben "great refoctaace" by Eu posture !o the chemical and the liver oik ropean fans* te (bare tbeir ieii>iiflc data cer. angiosarcoma was in Fehrauy of (hi* until they were guaranteed It would be >w*r. when an Italian wb 4 the re kept 1ft confidence. search testified in Waahingtoti. And Vit* He aii tbe MCA ooramitlee agreed te tone said be sever beard the word "angio- keep the date mnder vhwps Dev. 20 and unMu" BMil December M last year. the Jan. 30 meeting was then scheduled. The European firms were identified as Death of l hen Mcertedtxm. which initiated the Malta*! study: Imperial Chemical Industrie*: Sot* la January, Goodrich announced that vay. and ftheoc Prop!. At Hast cee <f three of its Louisville employes bad died those firms, Imperial CbemkwL has rinee of aneosairem* after years of exposure reported thM at least one of its werfcer* to vinyl chloride, and tb*t **&* of its died of angiosarcoma. employer here were showing liver ab. MCA l* now preparing * timetable f aomiJitks on medio! tests. Nearly a tbe sequent* of events leading up to the month later the wort of the Italian re association's final pqbbc aciaouocetoctis searcher. Dr. Cmre Maftom of Bologna, of the European research this February, was reported publicly by the MCA. li expects te issue this information later However, note* of the Jan. 30. 1973. this week. meeting show that William E. 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The Manufacturing Chemists Associa ists association -- which includes Goodtion (MCA) and the National Institute , rich -- as much as 18 months ago that the for Occupational Safety and Health exposure to vinyl chloride caused cancer. (NIOSH) are at odds over the question Maltoni also said he toid NIOSH offi of who knew what--and when--in the cials about six months after that. Key said vinyl chloride case. NIOSH was not told at that time. NIOSH says it begat} to ask for informa tion about vinyl chloride in January 1973 when it published `hr the Federal Register a list of 23 ch'cmical substances and phys ical agents' which it considered as poten tial hazards/ Vinyl cfilqride was among these. NIOSRsays'. The chemists over the weekend issued v The chemists' release says. "While it The chemists. association chronology a press release detailing the sequence of has been recognized for decades that ex says it was toid in. 1970. $971 and in 1972 events in which the association said it d& posure to high concentrations of vinyl of studies involving vinyl chloride and covered that worker exposure to vinyl chloride monomer might cause liver and animals. It considered some of the studies chloride could cause the rare liver cancer ; kidney injuries, the U. S. chemical indus less than relf^blc. iC'Says, and undertook angiosarcoma. try was not aware of any cancer-relatcd to do its own studies. The release says the chemists associa tion went to NIOSH on July 17, 1973. and potential of vinvl chloride monomer until May 187a" But in July, 1971. the association's chart , shows, it wrote to all member companies' told the federal agency that studies in Italy had shown that animals exposed to Says it briefed its members - medical departments and alerted them to the possible "health problems'' with the chemical developed cancerous tumors. Dr. Marcus M. Key, director of NIOSH, denies from Washington in a telephone interview that NIOSH received such in formation from the chemists association at that time. In fact. Key says in a state After it learned from maltoni in Jan uary 1973 of his studies, the association says, it briefed its members on the results. vinyl chloride. At the same time, it asked for support for a study into the effects 1 of vinyl-chloride exposure. It also had kept -them informed of earlier, less reliable, studies. Provide financial support * And in Jiffy, of latft, year, the chemists- ^,-Ehe chemists' chronology suggests that ment issued after the. chemists' release, association-says,-it went to NIOSH and -despite earlier statements by Goodrich the chemical industry did not even men also briefed the federal officials on the officials little was known about the effects tion the Italian studies. . I'- Was known for 18 months Italian studies.. 'of"vinyl chloride, much was'being done Key's'statement s'ays, "On July 17, 1973, by the chemists association~ to ,-cpnfirm I and several-members of my staf>*met' 4ne dtalian studies. And member com- This dispute is the latest development in the wake of disclosures that the Ameri can chemical industry knew at least 18 months ago that exposure to vinyl chlor ide could cause angiosarcoma, but did not make public the information at that time. at MCA's request' . MCA informed*- .`panics were involved in most of these NIOSH- of an MCA research study involv efforts through their financial support. ing exposure, of several rodent species to vinyl chloride vapors at 50, 500 and 5.000 parts - per- million parts of air. NIOSH asked MCA to keep (it) advised of the study's progress.'' 'The chronology also show's that at least six months before the Goodrich announce ment of the deaths, death records and personnel records of employes wcxG.being assembled by a consulting firm hired by The chemists association says it was Key's statement says, "At this meeting the chemists to determine the causes of bound by an. agreement with the Euro there was no mention of angiosarcoma death. ^ pean chemical companies with which it of the liver in humans or animals: no ref (Despite this check and arfenher^by the was cooperating to.eep one Italian re search project secret. erence to production of liver tirmors animals by an Italian investigatp>. . in* company, however, it .was The 1'imfes that intAvbrea the fifth Goodrich death when The danger of .exposure to vinyl chlor ide finally.1 became publicly known about Says it heard only in January, v.t* itrebgiinpd, the mart's death certificate biKh&isfaniily.) five months ago when the B. F. Goodrich Co. announced that some of its workers at its Bells Lane plant in Louisville died of angiosarpojna; probably caused by ex posure to vinyl chloride. NIOSH says the next it heard of vinyl chloride was the January disclosure by Goodrich. The day of the Goodrich an nouncement, NIOSH says, is the first.time The chemists association says it now has four studies under way to study the effects of vinyl-chloride exposure on animals. The company, in subsequent announce ments, said five workers' deaths had been attributed to angiosarcoma. Two living workers also have the cancer. Other deaths from vinyl-chloride-related angiosarcoma have since been dis covered both in America and in Europe. Government standards have been re vised in regard to the allowable amount of exposure of the chemical to workers and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is now proposing that no exposure be allowed in plants which produce the chemical. M (ft Oficials tell of suspicion Goodrich officials said it was the suspi cion of their company physician that led them to investigate the high incidence of liver abnormalities among its workers. This investigation, the company says, led to the subsequent discovery of the angio sarcoma cases. BFG29510 Co o o However, The Louisville Times report- Copies to: A* Vittone R. D. Scott J. L. Nelson E. W. Harrington H. Waltemate B. M. G. Zwicker G. Pow W. J. Wilcox P. J. Weaver R* B, Downey E. B. Osborne R. P. Kenney - A. L Hatfield C. R. Flynn I9 0 S 1 IW BFG29511