However, animals on its widespread finding of these environment from pesticide use seem taken from the Ohio River and Lake compounds in combustion products, to be much less hazardous than lab Michigan* where contamination that just about anything that will oratory tests would lead one to be comes from used PCB's, show higher burn can serve as a precursor.

746 nitl for "major public facilities" which meet threshold limits to be set hy OCZM, and on other, "controversial" projects.

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UCC 029044 May 22, 1978 rage ru FOOD CHEMICAL NEWS Saying that Ethyl Is keeping FDA Inform d of the data at they b come avallabl , Hughmark said, "Discussion with, and evaluation by, FDA of these data will lead to the establishment of whatever further experimental programs may be required."

The sections were cut by a Reichert ultramicrotome, then stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate.

jL .Manufacturing Chemists Association Record of Meeting TECHNICAL PANEL ON VINYL CHLORIDE RESEARCH MCA Conference Room Washington, D.C.

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 the lead in calling together six major Agencies of the i Federal Government.

The tests can indicate a decrease in ability to breathe that if continued could lead to a disease such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema, for which there is little available effective medical treatment.

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TECHNOLOGY Industry's latest cancer scare The deaths of five workers in ten years seem linked to working on the 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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I am very happy that he's acting here, because several weeks ago it was agreed that as between the AiHC and the SPI that the latter organization would take the lead, however, all they did was to protest mildly to the CPSC and nothing was done in public. ------------ ---------------- The matter which seems to me to have received inadequate attention is the contrast between the published conclusions of the author on page 19 and the press release which was prepared by the CPSC.

Practices that could lead to inadvertent contamination should be reviewed and training in right methods stressed. a.

For example, the leading cause of death among young people (age 20-24) is accidents, but among older people (age 65-69) it is heart disease.

Sommer pointed out that bonding and ground ing is too widely required in MCA data sheets and that this could lead to unduly restrictive regulation.