'ru THE LANCET, APRIL 3, 1976 Occasional Survey GENETIC RISKS OF VINYL CHLORIDE Peter F, Infante Joseph K..

At the start of the investi gation, which is expected to take about a year, vinyl chloride monomer is the lead ing suspect.

If these public hearings lead the Board to adopt related safety orders, copies will be mailed to all who attended a hearing or who submitted prior written comments.

The monitor was placed in the control room of Building 190 with 100 ft. of 0.5 in polyethylene tubing leading to a portable remote sampling probe placed in the unit.

Street a believes that PCBs ean cause sten degradation, which msy lead to sites endocrine relationships.

On another tack I want to remind you that the FDA in full recognition of the fact .that the problem of PCB's is broader than any single agency of government recently took tho lead in calling together six major Agencies of the i Federal Government.

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Selikoff figured prom inently in research leading to the identification of the 14 chemicals.

Observes a Firestone executive: "Individual com pany confidence in being able to attain compliance with even the SPI recommen dations has been eroding as lead times for obtaining equipment expand, as capi tal costs rise rapidly, and as the prospect for financing these projects becomes dim mer."

Over a period of years, this leads to difficulty in breathing, and shortness of breath--the disease we described as asbestosis. 23.

If the pore walls are covered by an adsorbed film, the thickness of which is comparable to the pore radius, this leads to an accelerated rate of penetration in comparison to systems in which the pore radii are large.

technology Industry's latest cancer scare The deaths of five workers in ten years seem linked to working on (he plastic Federal officials met last week with plastics industry* executives in Cleve land and Washington to try to deter mine whether the industry has un knowingly been exposing some of its 6.500 blue-collar workers to fumes that can lead to a rare form of liver cancer known as angiosarcoma.

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There are many sources ol PCB's in the environment, and it is not known whit combination of these leads to con tamination of Cayuga lake trout.