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Hertfordshire England Telephone Welwyn Garden 23400 (STD Code 07073) STD Code (iom London Aron 96 Telex 204251 Icipljisr Welwyn /; t I h "'V'c - )**' r.*/V' I \ * ; - /\- .'/>t I I Dr B K Q Zwicker Director of Technical Planning B F Goodrich Chotaical Company 6100 Oak Tree Boulevard Cleveland Ohio- 44131 USA Your ref Our ref it>.3 thf/if Tel ext Chemical ^ Industries^) Limited Plastics pDi;i,vi_s;io_ n AW3/MKH 3012 20 August 1975 Dear Ben Thank you for your letter of August 7.. which I have just seen since I have only this week returned from holiday. I think the quickest thing ve can do is to send you a copy of a draft letter which we thought of sending to the New Scientist but which in the event we haven't published partly because of timing and partly because the scare seems to be dying down in the UK. This was written by our Central Toxicology Laboratory people and although principally scientific in content it does, of course, have a political aspect to it. It summarises accurately our viows on the.subject sad makes reference to the 1CI test data which has been published. I will try * get you a photocopy of the publication to enelose with this letter but if I cannot obtain this quickly I will leave it to you to follow up the reference. May I emphasise that although this communication has not been published we are still holding it in reserve in case the subject should blow up g-iw so I would be glad if you would- use it simply as a source document for information and ideas and not as a letter for quoting. The draft deals effectively if not summarily with the Italian work. As a layman can 1 comment that Dr Rose seems to be about as non-scientifle as you can get. I understand that of his two samples one was obtained by scraping powder off the roof of a car parked outsido a PVC works and. the other, we believe, was obtained from a compounder and may have, in fact, been a dry blend rather than pure PVC. I think it possible that Dr Rose is just as annoyed by the New Scientist article as we were since there is some suggestion that the information didn't come-direct from him but was obtained second hand. To assist in further clarification of his results the CIA has offered, through 3?, to supply him with some properly identified samples of PVC. Nevertheless the ICI work reported in 1973 is, of course, much more extensive and much more properly conducted. ucc 013147