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From: Sent: To: Subject: Williams, Elizabeth J SCAI-HSE Monday, October 03,20051 :22 PM Clegg, Patsy M SCC-CHSE-PC Shanghai Study Follow Up Flag: Follow up Due By: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:00 PM Flag Status: Flagged Patsy - let me know if you are too busy to provide right now but need something for Fran quickly... Seems she needs this pronto but we thought we had more time... Could you provide a few words around the Shanghai Study. What I am looking for is something like: Background - what is the study and why is it being conducted... Shell Chemical is participating in a multi-stakeholder health study in Shanghai, China, which aims to better define the hazards and health risks from exposure to benzene. The project participants include a wide range of stakeholders including the Fudan University Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Applied Health Sciences, Chinese public health agencies, Shanghai hospitals as well as several peer energy and chemical companies. This study, which is part of our commitment to product stewardship, will help clarify previous assumptions regarding benzene health risks and will also help address some recent questions about benzene hazards and exposure. Further, this information will provide the industry with information, which we can use to determine what, if any, improvements are needed in existing protocols. The study will examine past and current exposures in Shanghai-area manufacturing facilities (none are Shell facilities and the benzene not a Shell product). A state-of-the-art clinical and molecular laboratory was built on the Fudan Medical University campus to support the research project and the Shanghai medical community. Chinese technicians have been trained to operate the lab. This facility will remain at Fudan once the project is completed Number of years for study: 7 years Total and Shell Costs per year of study: Total - $5,000,000 , Total study budget: $26,000,000 2000 15,000 2001 522,627 2002 986,046 2003 962,373 2004 514,350 2005 365,334 2006 911,959 (part of this may be paid in 05) 2007 434,994 Shell's sweat equity to Study: Shell chairs the consortium Oversight Committee and Budget Committee. Shell sits on the Technical Committee and inputs to the Communications Committee. See what I have pulled together on other initiatives... SH ELL-MCCLU RG-059857