mentions few Tork Times story on asbestos-cancer link, remaining uncertainty there, but goes on to say, "(There) is a better recog nized hazard which also leads to disability and death.

FOOD and Drug Ad ministration (USDA) recently en forced its "action limit" of 5 parts per million of PCBs on several shipments.of commerciallycaught carp from Lake Pepin, leading to the voluntary disposal of several thousand tons of carp fillets prepared for outstate sale.

They have been concerned with the lead pollution problea at Avonaouth and with druaa of isocyanates washed ashore in Cornwall, but the probleas arising frna illicit dumping of cyanide is regarded as a fairly straight forward legislative problea to be handled aainly by local authorities.

As I stated at the tine of our meeting, there ore several factors Which lead Monsanto to this price Increase decision.

We told him that we were doing this in Compound because of lead and that we felt that because of the high vapor pressure of VCM that there was no way that VCM could be taken into their homes.

Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) - Calvert City Operation - The ethylene plant's present feedstock is propane and propane is still the leading feedstock candidate for Calvert City.

As a result of this the three leading Companies in the asbestos industry, B.B.A.

I encountered him first in a Petition, in which ha was jo ined by Claire Patterson and several ethers, to have lead banned from use in gasolin A few days ago, 1 read his article in the Saturday Review.

Much information has been added to the subject of heavy metal poisoning, especially to the elucidation of some of the nuances in the behavior of lead and mercury, during the past few years, and it is indeed important to industrial hygienists to know where we are in these matters, at present We are among the group of people who must do much of the working and thinking for the people of this country in the matter of the occupational and environmental problems which are presenting themselves so urgently at present.

Aurelio's Image the Department of Air Resources does not practice government by making We are attacking air pollution from a multitude of sources on many levels The initiative on automotive sources does not mean we have downgraded the upgrading of incinerators and oll burners Approximately 60 per cent of our staff of 260 continues to be de- voted to enforcement of : upgrading laws With the final denial by the United States Supreme Court of the landlord's challenges to the law we are now making rapid progress Eleven violating Incinerators have been sealed with more on the way Many hundreds of contracts for new refuse compactors have recently been signed Ask any major landlord or public agency whether there's been any let in pressure to get this job completed by the end of 1972 In addition a new industrial pollution task force has opened a drive on the 6,000 industrial polluters in the city Over sixty notices to seal equipment have been issued If the City Council acts rapidly on the pending pollution control code the greatest reductions to date of sulfur dioxide will occur this fall and controls will be placed on important contributors to photochemical smog and other pollutants such as lead and asbestos The exhibit at the Automobile Show was never intended to convey an ad- ministration image but rather to introduce new segments of the public to a different way of looking at the use of urban space and the role of the car in the center city and to inform them of the city's leadership in developing pollution vehicles for urban use The exhibit was a first step in building apparently still needed public support for major traffic restrictions This education process will continue throughout the next six months opening the public's eyes to the true cost of midtown traffic congestion in terms of noise air pollution litter time lost threats to personal safety sacrifice of valuable urban space inefficiency of delivery of goods and the creation of barriers to personal communication which is what a city is all about When this is more generally understood the plans of those of us who dream of a more human city will be able to be translated into reality - ROBERT N.

Elmes, Director of the Medical Research Council Pneumocon* iosis Unit, Penarth, wrote in 1976, 'As it is unusual at the present time to detect asbestosis in workers under the age of 50, it is evident that asbestosis may coincide with other disabilities leading to the necessity for light work and retirement at the age of say 60.

This leads me to conclude that the numbering scheme shown in the .. second set of reports is correct.

In response totfHiHBiMl^s inquiry if his VCM restrictions would eliminate him for consideration for a future supervisory position in QC, it was stated that a supervisor assigned to the QC area would have to be free to frequent all areas of that laboratory. .To determine if such a daily routine would lead to exposure to VCM, I suggested that^VHHHBMMM, the current supervisor, he requested to wear a VCM monitoring badge for informational purposes.

Under such conditions different chemical reactions may occur and lead to the formation of potential carcinogenic or carcinogen potentiating intermediates.

Further study is required to deter mine if the restricted use of PCBe in industry will lead to a pronounced decrease of the concentration of the ohealcals in waste effluents and in nearshore environments such as Green Bay.