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Shmrl Itmnmnd Nr**.rtfci Ftmronflwnl Wrlrr M yitu wanted to pifit tlir best place for a love th,.ntstcl tr> g*i into Jl.c environment And mure wtd> S'lfud health problems where would you pul It' H"t* alwot m nisiiiir p.imU on the outside of beftfr s-ci it washes into the Haler'1 Or in ulrh^-t w> a ha^hes into the soil' Or in fiUt> million flour* steal light fixture*; buttons of shifts of paper and ivumlet* appliance* sc that it would be almost ini|h**itilc lo retrieve it7 Thin i* what has been allowed to lisppen dunna the p**i five decades with a {roup of flame retar danl ehrmirtli called PCBa polycliloimated bi phenyl* 1 liry came Into wide use a* an insulator >u electntai equipment and as a preservative in r-u rtKTouf other items Now they have been shown lo eauw rnniri and reproductive failure m lest am malt and skin lemons in }*ople Nine yean ago, the first serious iJlne*e were reported in humans from iVb poisoning--hebru ary 1Wi& in tusho Japan Five yean ago, Japan Umiwd the chemical and an American in<erjj'eney Laah force concluded that FCBs are highly perg> tern. cnuld be found in all parts of the environment and enuld have serious aflveiwc affects on human health And during the pa*t four yean, the Environ menuI IkfiMiac Hund arid the Natural Reaouicrs IfcfetiK Council, two leading American environ mentJil groups petti toned and sued the federal gov eminent, demanding si net ri^ulatiODS to limit do* niesttc uk vf tl*e chemical and its exposures in the population Yti Hie federal government Still has nol set minimum allowable limits that many scientists eonerdrr safe fur all acgntenls of society in the eon aumpiion of I'CO-contacnmaled fish, Die ctiemicils elite) pathway to people Further, there are no reg ulstion* to prevent Die hundreds of millions of pound* of tl*e Disk chemical now in use from get ling min lhr environment and causing more harm Jn February, the federal government banned disciterpen of l*CHa into the environment as of Ktb S, 1978 Monsanto Chemical Co , the nation * sole upphn of PCtti. he< announced il wilt cease msk mg the chemical by Oct 31 of Una year Dul since the Yuaho incident, Monsanto has produced moje than <0(1 million pounds of PCD*, and thousands of pounds have been discharged into the environment by industries, homeowners, feusinetor* and a muliitwh of other source* Thi hood and drug AdinimsirstJOu n proposing to lover by 60 pei cent its limits on lire cotmiimpOOn of con taminalcd fwh. but even then it concedes, the dose* will nol be safe enough for children and worn- eu of child beiinng ages to eat mart than four tut*I* of svkIs full (irr immth Hh1 Fnviioru'Hiital Prvletlion Agency is pro paruif regulitlHifit fur the fciff disposal of the more limn throe puoriert of a billion pound* of PCUi still inuk ItwiuiNupposMllornacttheregulalrons by July 1, bul ll naan1!

FROM ROBERT P.

American Petroleum Institute Company Memberships 1979' Company Name_____ .

Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Department of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, Srobdroca 48, Prague 10; and District Hospital, Department of Lung Diseases, Nymburk, Czechoslovakia Received November 17, 1971 It is of interest whether pleural calcification is primarily the result of long years of exposure to asbestos dust or whether there are factors other than exposure to dust We have investigated persons working for a long period in a plant processing asbestos products (chrysotile), persons without occupational exposure to dust but living in the vicinity of the plant, and consanguineous relations of patients with pleural calcifications.

4 Published by Manufacturing Chemists Association Vol. 2 No. 5 July-August 1974 Global Economic Ties Are Stressed To Nearly 1,000 at Annual Meeting "Whether we 'ike it or not, we are now moving, forthe first time really, into aglobal economy in which we all need each other much more than we ever did in the past."

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(HRA) 77-1101. 5* Mortality Trends for Leading Causes of Death: United States - 1950-69. .DHEW Pub.

EpfsSa Associates Box 214 Norwich, VT 05055 30 Co 0) -J oroo A Review of: / Waxweiler, RJ, Smith, AH, Tyroler, HA and Falk, H "An epidemiologic investigation of an excess lung cancer risk in a synthetic chemicals slant" XIX International Congress on Occupational Health; Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (1978) Report prepared by: E.

Copy of Federal Register - Ambient Air Quality Standard for Lead.

Mutation Rest arch, 31 (1975) i) Klsevier Scientific ihibiishhi^ Company, Amsterdam Printed m The Netherlands 163 VINYL CHLORIDE EXPOSURE AND HUMAN CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS* ALAN DUCATMAN, KUKT HIliSCHHOUN** and IRVING J.

"I hope this signals the start of a period in which Exxon Corporation will again be earning a rate of return on investment which is compara ble to that of leading companies in other industries," the chairman said.

FRICTION MATERIALS SI/u-JDARDS INSTITUTE, INC., E. 210 ROUTE 4, PARAMUS, K.J. 07652 MINUTES OF THE KEETHiC of the ASBESTOS STUDY COMMITTEE Friday, June 1, 1973, at 9:30-A.M. at the Institute Office, E. 210 Route 4, Paramus, H.J.

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