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Testifying at Occupational Safety and Health Administra tion hearings, Joseph Fath called the government's at tempt to eliminate detectable traces of vinyl chloride "unrealistic and impossible. But artificial air can only be used for short periods of time with out causing harm to lungs and nostrils so something else must be devised, the Industry and government have ''agreed.
Ventilation, outdoor manu facturing, and improved Evidence has been mounting j valves, flanges and hose con recently to link vinyl chloride nectors can. But engineering com- manufacture of many plastics ; pletely airtight connections is --with angiosarcoma, a rare so difficult that the industry cancer of the liver. Of 13 now loses 5 per cent of its known cases of workers con product, Fath said. Twenty workers con nected with Tenneco's vinyl chloride processing have died In the last 17 years, although none, the company said, have had angiosarcoma.
A labor leader has called the statistics "blackmail. One possible solution for re ducing the effects of harmful levels of the chemical is the use of respirators and other artificial air sources.
Before "This is no easy position io take," Bommarito said, "but there is no alternative. The "no and use. However, some mar ginal firms, the department detectable level'' is 1 or 2 admitted, might be threatened parts per million.
