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CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION Vinyl Chloride Panel Research Coordinators Record of Meeting DATE: TIME: May 19, 1994 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. List of Participants: James Barter Ed Beeler Greg Bond Frank Borrelli Mike Gargas (PT) Mark Gruenwald Jim Knaak Dave Penney David Pun Jonathan Ramlow Richard Reitz (PT) PPG GEON Dow Chemical Georgia Gulf CHEMRISK - McLaren/Hart Borden Oxy Vista Formosa Dow Chemical Consultant Kim Reed Has Shah CMA CMA 1.0 The Panel approved the February 14, 1994 Record of Meeting as written. 2.0 Jonathan Ramlow reviewed the draft scope of work for the update of the mortality among vinyl chloride workers. The scope of work asks contractors to provide an additional ten years of follow-up to the cohort previously studied by Environmental Health Associates (1986). The Panel also would like the update to incorporate state of the art modelling methods for data analyses and use the Eighth or Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Disease to code all death certificates. The 1986 study used the Seventh Revision. The new update also would compare the worker mortality with regional and national averages, as compared to only the national average in the 1986 study. Due to the shifting of ownership of many plants, some plant data are no longer directly available to Panel members. Has Shah will contact non-Panel companies that produce or produced vinyl chloride to see if they will participate in the update. Panel members should contact their Vinyl Institute Executive Board members to have them encourage Westlake to participate in the update. The Panel discussed the potential contractors for the update. Potential contractors include: Howard Rockette (University of Pittsburgh); Kenneth Mundt (Applied Epidemiology, Inc.); Roy Shore (New York University Medical Center); and, Don Whorton (ENSR). BFG 00192