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UNIROYAL, Inc. Oxford Management A Research Center Middlebury, Connecticut 06749 November 21, 1973 Dr. William R. Gaffey Tabershaw-Cooper Associates, P. 0. Box 772 Berkeley, California 94701 Inc. Dear Dr. Gaffey: Dr. J. D. Forbes, our Medical Director, and I have been consider ing your letter of October 5 and Dr. Cooper's proposed letter. While Uniroyal realizes that there is some risk in the letter approach, we believe that the risk is justified. W- feel that we should make every reasonable effort to trace each employee who has had substantial expo sure. Mr. Melore at Painesville has almpst completed his compilation. We may be able to supply some additional information from the records developed by North Carolina which is making an epidemiological study of several of the major rubber companies. Hopefully this will reduce appreciably your task. North Carolina has compiled death certificates or proof of death forms for Painesville employees who died between January 1, 1963 and December 31, 1972 They are sending this informa tion hopefully next week and we will either mail it directly or combine it with the record which Mr. Melore is developing. Do you plan to study Monochem? It you do, we will have to rely on local records. We have nothing at Oxford. Sincerely WDH:rg cc: Neil Melore J. D. Forbes, M. R. E. Lowell D. E. Dudrow G. A. Anderson D. Walter D. Harris, ?h. D. Corporate Industrial Toxicologist