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Anthony J. Otgflo Otfoctor
Corporaw Envtfonmanid ActMttM (215V 48A4339
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5 November 1987
To: M. R. Chmura E. I. Handwork 0. K. Spata
L. B. Tapper 0. T. Wharton
R. 0. Wood
cc: B. 2. Drozdowlcz T. J. Marriott, Jr.
Please find attached an Industry-sponsored study on the effects of exposure to vinyl chloride.
This study concludes that worker exposure to vinyl chloride at several hundred ppm for periods of greater than IS years has caused angiosarcoma.
However, there Is no evidence that exposure to vinyl
chloride has caused any other disease.
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Attachment: "Effects of Exposure to Vinyl Chloride: An Assessment of the Evidence"
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