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HILL AND KNOWLTON, Inc. Plastic Ban Poses ,.r- ' ; . Job Loss Threat A Xi WASHINGTON ' - The victims remain alive, he After 49 weeks of dosage, h& American plastics industry said. \ said, "we have observed nine1 warned that proposed In addition, experimental government rules to slash studies conducted by In- vinyl chloride levels in du st rial Bio-Test Laboratories of Northbrook, factories to minimize the. III., and fay Prof. Cesare mammary carcinomas, two liver fibre - angiomas, and two subcutaneous angiomas." Based on the Maltoni and danger of cancer could cost Maltoni of Bologna, Italy, B i o - T e a t Laboratory ex the nation up to 2.2 million have strengthened the belief periments, plus the known jobs and $90 billion ip annual production. Anton Vittone, president of that vinyl chloride causes cancer. In a just - released telegram to John Stender, B.F. Goddrich Chemical Co. head of the Occupational and an official of the Society Safety Health AdminiOration of the Plastics Industry, said _ in the Department of Labor, the proposed"health rules" Malton:i reportl~edl that vinyl could virtually shut down his chloride produced "zymbal industry. ' ' gland carcinomas Vittone appeared at a nephroblastomas, angiosarco public hearing with scores of mas of liver and other sites, other industry represen- skin narinomas and probably t a t i v e s to oppose im-' heptatomas and neuroblasto piemen tation of new mas',* in rats. regulations, which would In " another experiment, limit factory air levels of Maltoni said, more than 60 vinyl chloride to less than mice were exposed to 50 one part per million -- so parts - per - million of vinyl small as to be undetectable. chloride for.seven months. cases of liver cancers in humans exposed to vinyl chloride, the Occupational Safety and Health Ad ministration concluded that "our present judgment is that vinyl chloride is a carcinogenic agent." In April, tile agency issued a n emergency standard limiting vinyl chloride air levels to 50 parts - per - million -- the same daily dosage administered to Maltoni's mice. Now the agency propses to reduce allowable vinyi chloride air levels to less than one part per million, the so-called "no detectable level" standard, r WadUnaf-- Jtonrlct I T In recent -months, vinyl chloride -- a key chemical in the manufacture of many plastics -- has been linked to a rare form of cancer called angiosarcoma of the liver. The evidence has been rapidly accumulating. SPRINGEIELD,. MASS. Within the past two weeks, testified Dr. Marcus M. Key of the National Institute for Ucoupational Safety and Health, "We have identified two deaths from angiosar D. 83,064 JUN 2 6 1974 coma of the liver in men employed at plants utilizing polyvinyl chloride to fabricate other products." Key said seven cases have been reported at a B.F. Goddrich plant in Kentucky, three cases at a Goodyear plant in New York, two cases in a Union* Carbide plant in West Virginia and one case in a Firestone plant in Pennsylvania. Of the thirteen reported cancer cases linked to vinyl chloride, only three BFG24410 23217123 **f*'