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TELEPHONE HUDSON Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc. (FOUNDED 1872) 1825 Connecticut Avenue. N. W. Washington. D. C. 20009 Minutes of Meeting Plastics Committee The New York Hilton New York, New York November 25, 1968 #SENT: Glenn L. Pitzer, Union Carbide Corporation R. F. Seubert (for C. E. Brown), Sinclair-Koppers Company C. E. Denoon, Jr., Rohm and Haas Company D. M. Gallagher, Canadian Industries Limited W. D. Holland, American Cyanamid Company G. A. Fowles (for T. B. Nantz), B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company C. M. Neher, Ethyl Corporation F. R. Reese, Monsanto Company R. G. Richards, Celanese Corporation W. C. Roher, Gulf Oil Corapany-U.S. R. E. Heckert (Alternate for R. L. Schuyler), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company C. R. Scott, Phillips Petroleum Company M. H. P. Morand (for G. J. Williams), Dow Chemical Company H. D. Allick (for R. E. Workman), Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company T. R. Miller, Union Carbide Corporation G. E. Best, Manufacturing Chemists Association H. E. Robbins, Manufacturing Chemists Association M. E. Woodruff, Manufacturing Chemists Association F. H. Carman, Staff Secretary for Committee, M.C.A. CMA 015517 3 epidemiologic study This program at Michigan Institute of Industrial Health was d^rtaken in behalf of 19 member and 2 non-member companies. It is ^eing directed by a Task Group of MCA's Occupational health Committee. since the report of September 19, 1968, the Institute has advised all participating companies of suspected casess of Raynaud's phenomenon. There is strong suspicion that the poly-cleaning operation [night be contributing to cases found in five compani&. A draft of the final report for review by the Task Group is expected in December, and it may be appropriate then for this study to be reported in an open meeting of the Occupational He-alth Committee, manufacturers of FVC resin, and representatives of th^ University of Michigan. Additional presentations will be made to the American Medical Association and the American Industrial Hygiene Association. PVC - COMBUSTION PRODUCTS Supplementing report of September 4, 1968, the Secretary ad vised that this USPH study is well underway, all samples have been " supplied as agreed, and it is expected the industry representatives will meet with USPH in Cincinnati during February, 19<69 to consider the significance of their findings. In a related study, the corrosion problem resulting from PVC fires has become of considerable concern in the United States and Europe. The USPH study might be useful to the industry representative planning to attend an April 1969 meeting in Sweden on this matter. CMA 015518