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After reading the piece "Poisonous Plastics?" [HEALTH, March 1], I was left with the question Where's the science? Conspicuously absent are comments from independent scientists, manufacturers of the demonized products--other than a passing reference to an Abbott Laboratories' package insert--or from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that regulates the blood and IV bags whose safety the article questions. The fact is that numerous independent studies and reviews conducted by government bodies have found no scientific evidence of risk associated with the use of vinyl medical products. C.T. ("KIP") HOWLETT JR. Executive Director Chlorine Chemistry...
...Abbott Laboratories was not interviewed for this article, however you stated [based on a product flyer] that it "admits there is too little data to draw hard conclusions" about the safety of polyvinyl chloride. This is completely untrue and contrary to our position. PVC is the material of choice for many lifesaving medical products because of its compatibility with medications, sterilization capabilities and other positive qualities. These products have a superlative 40-year record of safe and effective use in the health-care industry. Nor is Abbott a "PVC maker." Abbott Laboratories fabricates safe, government-approved health-care products using...
...Many past Harvard presidents were members of the clubs. Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, was in the Porcellian, Abbott L. Lowell, Class of 1877, was in the Fly and James B. Conant '14, was in the D.U. (which was absorbed...
...step here. PVC manufacturers object, insisting that their products are safe and arguing that animals in plastic studies are given far higher levels of PVC than a human would ever absorb. In at least one experiment, however, rats were deliberately given low PVC doses and still showed ill effects. Abbott Laboratories, a PVC maker, admits there is too little data to draw hard conclusions; with some of its IV bags, it includes a flyer warning of that...
...Abbott says he finds the class enjoyable andappreciates the challenge...