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.

Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinal School of Medicine company bought new respirators but under the conditions they clog in 15 minutes In the asbestos cutting rooms he adds there aren't any vacuum attachments on the power saws And when the insulation workers saw asbestos sheets outside the room or mix cement in a wheelbarrow anybody can get the dust lead him to predict that of the roughly 250,000 asbestos industry workers today about 95,000 will die unnecessarily of occupational cancer In the next 10 to 15 years we will enter the asbestos cancer era says Dr.

Mancuso felt the nature - 830 death records SPA such that other cases of mesothelioms may exist but are unrecognized Ne spoke of the need to use this oprortunity to develop an affective industrial medical surveillance aysten Herb Northrop of problem is perspective . asbestos Ford asked that any alert bulletin place this pointing out other recognized exposures to John Dement of DFSCI presented preliminary data from a NIOsil study showing neal exposures of un tn 5 fibers during brake LIUM bling He also showed peak lead levels of approximately 4.5 20 Jurlag blowing operations IOSH electronmicroscopic studies of brake 887 dust also showed a predominance of mall asbestos fibers with west fibers being less than 1 micrometer in length At oa plant reneving lined brake sheca exposures of 21 fibers during grinding and pos of up to 10 fibers during antying of a drun containing old old linings linings linings were observod .

Typical examples include: .. .inadequate lighting, leading to eye strain as well as reduced employee productivity and efficiency. ...high noise levels, with the potential . for employee discomfort, temporary or permanent physical datnage to hearing, psychological disorientation and other undesirable effects.

In the past, crocidollte and amosite were used far more extensively in the United.States than they are tods; The leading producers of chrysotile fleer are Canada and the Soviet Union, with smaller deposits being found in South Africa,.

He also commented that our restraint on price increases will lead to our getting an increasing share of their business.

FDA-ers that the pilot test will lead to conclusions abaft random sampling of plants anwroducts, and about the kinds of attention n^raed by specific segments of Skistry.

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He could not comment on the statistical significance of these results, or speculate as to mechanisms leading to this lowered fertility.

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These readings lead us to discontinue use of the product.

Lower chlorinated biphenyls, however, are of special interest because their biolo gical degradability might lead to metabolites of in creased toxicity.

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