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FILE NAME DuPont DUP DATE 1979 July DOC DUP170 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Articles . ee ee whee - Cancer risk risk cancer risk cancer cancerrisk risk embarases potent Reaction Reaction chemiccahlemical Reaction headquartes a Castleman caus- Reactionlarge Pont's headquarters affairs engi- based worksbaebdased publicpublicmuteadfairs hadbased 7 consultanWashington Defense wrote there Defense had had been been threats recntlyvarcnhiesmcalsanctaimnoctiusmonious conduct ofivnde-orveroCanstlemanB'suthCeastqlemuan'sstitonwocmpancoympacnheymialschemiccheamheilmiccasls ke ping as own history big busines of ing dadangnersgersdangers sub had and that curent the episode busines Acording contracdtaedngersbladerbladceurnt flayAcordingbusines episode se blader BaVsvewosAcording Acording RaDu y gesSugan2yg253 Bgsezs Aaseua adgZa25gae Beytgs oVyuse ene, = SL33 op og. 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Castlemen HE Five Quiz on Corpo- HE Ethics offered on Du- Outlook two weeks ago by the Du- nt public affairs office contended at critics of business morality have appreciate led to the the complexities ethical problems that face siness executives A fuller under- mding of such issues the article granted would vindicate the ac- s of DuPont for one At least one of the examples cited this article deserves further dis- ission This was an account of Du- ont's discovery in the 1930s that who were this - DuPont's Record In Business Ethics Another View Company A few years later Husper was working for DuPont , and environmental cancers among the consumers of their products made a matter of public records Such publicity might reflect unfavorably upon their business activities and oblige them to undertake extensive and expensive technical and sani- tary changes in their production methods and in the types of products manufactured There is moreover the distinct possibility of involved in compensation suits with extravagant financial claims by the injured parties It is therefore not an uncommon practice that some pressure is exerted by the parties financially interested in such matters to keep information on the occurrence of industrial cancerunder called paper Hueper upon industry to find substitutes for carcinogenic substances such as BOC- ondary aromatic amines and asbes- i companion in the back of the ca had his eyes closed and said to th DuPont doctor Look you are company man and I am a compan man and Dr. and is asleep Can you explatoimne why aftetrh and so on that you hav shown to us today you are so certai thatbenzidine is not causing anyany ,, the trouble He got the reply witnessed by th other Briton who was in fact no asleep but thinking We here kno very well that benzidine is causin bladder cancer but it is compan policy to incriminate only the on substance naphthylamine Dr. Williams had only recentl joined the giant Imperial Chemic firm where he later became know as an ardent campaigner against o DuPont cupational cancer hazards did not withdraw from development . ( it that this cancer it is obvious contin uing epidemic of cancer was bot foreseen and preventable ersity Pont early souse alan naphthylaPemninseyblveanizaidipnrecautions no cordoned actedlargerhad been known conditions of the sighHadn't chemical answerxperi- DuPont HadnH'adtn'tamong past and it use he said was being abandoned In the early months of 1949 the medical officer to the Imperial Chemical Industries Dyestuffs Divi- This Works Chambers Works plant man late Michael Williams Dr. was accompa- nied by another British researcher and they were shown around by the possthi at b mosi t pl eopi le t in by us ness have pretty much the sam base of values as most of their criti I could well imagine Dr. Huej er's reaction to the suggestitohni he was the moral equivaloefntth DuPont executives and theimerd He called them chiselers the inddu olls arston r indi ustra iallIr trul from their workers with their Nex ible frontmen inmedicinsmedicins law Kr public relations Bill Hueper occupi about business ethics and from the tional cancer people thin wrote the book The only they undeirs jsailtandaband pdul noticed Castleman environ- the occurrence of occupational cnacers among their employes or of