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...risks to plastics workers are real. A research team headed by Dr. Irving Selikoffof New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine has found that workers at one plant are exposed to VC levels of 400 to 500 parts per million of the gas, more than enough to cause liver disease in rats. Workers involved in cleaning the reactors in which VC is converted to PVC are exposed to even higher concentrations of the gas. One study showed that VC levels in these cookers range from 600 to a whopping 1,000 parts per million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plastic Peril | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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