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-' ' :-# ' * fjW- -3?/^* ->- : ' KtttlVtU INALCORMSPONDINCE ------------------------- =-----------^H~>gl975 m#-- ;*? %.; dig; "i&j- 'V ,rV A '^ M WHFfliit JR. t - 36. e. RIVER ROAD, BOUND BROOK* NEW JERSEY 08805 &*fe. JH+ :V "**#,^Mr..R. E. Flowers ""wjftMr. H. Johnson .. ' C. D. Nutter orifinatini otp*. .' January 20, 1975 * Warehouse Management ^ V' -< - Aw--rfni im# att E. Bell ' .-Mr. H. L. Cox . Mr. R. H. Gauthier Mr. J. S. Novak Mr. A. R. Randall V . The attached article appeared In today's Wall Street Journal. The proposed standard on Inorganic arsenic Is similar to the Vinyl Chloride standard In that It requires regular medical examinations, monitoring devices, respirators, exposure limits, etc. Looks like we are going to see a lot more of this type of control. Hopefully very few. If any* additional Uhlon Carbide products will be i 0?589 T'Tij. fT-SStJ' JV . K ;>:'' '-H - JtV IT Controls 6h Arsenic Are Sought ByLaborDepartment Due to Cancer Link r Mblnt *_ i--' ^i - strongly Implicated" ltd" to reduce exposure to or Jtolorww 4 OJKH-milligrsm leveL such controls would be required even though they didn't reduce exposure to the permleelMe level, and would be supplemented by "the nee to work-practtoe controls or respirators to provide the necessary protections." bom Allied Chemical Cbrp. and Dow Cbm Hearing Set April leu Co. todtoetlBg abnormally bleb rates aI The new standard wont taka effect for hmg and lymph eancar among workers ax- some months. The Labor Department's Oc poaad to arsenic. cupational Safety and Health Administra \ Tbo proposed standard aaaha to reduce tion haa set a March } deadline tor public worker exposure to levels `as low as feasi comments, and win hold a hearing April ble," tha department said. "since there la an "all aspects of the proposed standard, in jp evidence of a safe level of exposure.~ cluding environmental Impact," The final * rarladto Mediae! Exams . standard would then bo issued, taking into Tha standard seta 0.00} mlUIgnme of ar- account material gathered at tha hearing. onto par cubic motor to air aa Government officials estimate that as level" at which workers muat be provided many as 1.5 million employes may ha ex with protective equipment and muat ha posed directly or indirectly to raw inorganic (law regular medical asamlnoHnna Work araenie, which la used In making a wide va an with 10 years or men employment in riety to products. Including pesticides, defol operattana tavotvtag Inorganic anwdc iants, orahgsaas killers, glnaawaro. marine would be examined every six months: other antltoullng paints and some medicines. -employes would be examined annually. The department said UA. consumption of Employers wing antnto would bare to ono wldoly used compound, arsenic trioxide, tl acquire equipment capable to detecthif the has been estimated at 25,000 to 30,000 ttsu a 0.0QJ-milligram concentrations. . .... The maximum Hmtt hr exposure would The department's present exposure Hmtt <bo 0.004 meter to addition, mimgmma to araenie per cubic air averaged over eight bouts. In there would be a calling Unit to tor araenie end grum per cubic Its compounds Is meter to air an 0.5 an miUleight- tJtl miUtgramu for any IS-mlnute hour time-weighted average basis. For lead Mq a work torn. Thm Bmtta eet levels arsenals, the limit la 0.15 milligram, and tor above which no emptoye exposure in ] calcium arsenate, 1.0 milligram. ntltted," the department said. . % i The proposed standard doesn't cover or Employers would be xnfgbwd ' ganic araenie compounds or arsine, which la an inorganic compound. V ucc 036590