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GEORGE E. BEST technical director Vi* MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS ASSOCIATION 1825 CONNECTICUT AVENUE. N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20009 (202) 483.6126 March 20, 1970 To: PVC Resin Producers - Participants in Epidemiologic Study (List attached) Subject: Proposed Acroosteolysis Registry and Consultation Center Institute of Industrial Health The University of Michigan (Proposal No. ORA-70-1077-KB1) Dear Sirs: Presumably you are already aware that several possible lines of further research were considered on the acroosteolysis problem, but abandoned for the present in favor of con tinuing surveillance of industrial personnel. Accordingly, Dr. Dinman has arranged for a proposal to be submitted, copy attached, the contract for one year for which would cost $3,238. Subscribed funds remaining with MCA exceed this amount, hence no further assessment will be needed. Please so indicate on the accompanying reply sheet if you agree to having MCA execute the contract. Please note, however. Section III of the proposal con cerning Roentgenographic Consultation. Such service would not be covered under the contract, and companies making use of it would be billed directly (not through MCA) by the Depart ment of Radiology. Your prompt return of the reply sheet is urged in order that these arrangements can be completed if they are accept able to all of the companies participating. This letter also affords an opportunity to let you know that future staff surveillance will be shared with UCC 100645 PVC Resin Producers - Participants in Epidemiologic Study March 20, 1970 Page Two Dr. Kenneth D. Johnson who has been with us for several years but only recently was assigned to work with the Occupational Health Committee. Very truly yours GEB:tp Enclosures cc: Dr. K. D. Johnson MCA Liaison Committee E. M. Dixon, M.D. K. S. Lane, M.D. W. E. McCormick J. H. Wolfsie, M.D. Alternates (OHC) UCC 100646 PVC Resin Producers - Participants in Epidemiologic Study Company Contact(and Alternate) Company Contact(and Alternate) Airco Chemicals & Plastics John T. Barr Allied Chemical Corporation William M. Reiter Atlantic Tubing & Rubber Co. Glenn P. Smith Borden Inc/Chemical Division Nathan.M. Blackman Diamond Shamrock Corporation E. A. Rose The Dow Chemical Company Harold L. Gordon Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (Esso Chemical Co.) N. V. Hendricks Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Laurence H. Ballou, M.D General Tire & Rubber Co. R. W. Laundrie The B. F. Goodrich Company Rex H. Wilson, M.D. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Frank A. Cox (W. E. McCormick) Great American Plastics Co. Albert W. Fuhrman Hooker Chemical Corporation William Wetzel (Jerome Wilkenfeld) GEB:tp 3/20/70 Gulf Oil of Canada Shawinigan Chemicals Division H. A. Norton Monsanto Company M. N. Johnson, M.D. (George W. Ingle) Olin Corporation A. E. Ardis The Pantasote Company John E. Ertel (R. D. Carlson) (J. C. Smith) Stauffer Chemical Company George R. Seiler Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. Gordon Rozand Union Carbide Corporation J. H. Field (R. N. Wheeler) Uniroyal, Inc. J. H. Wolfsie, M.D. UCC 100647