Toxic Legacy. Candy J. Cooper.
by Cooper, Candy J; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 54Environment. Publisher: The Record, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Cancer -- Causes and theories of causation | Class actions (Civil procedure) | Employees -- Health and hygiene | Hazardous substances -- Health aspects | Industrial hygiene | Pantasote Inc | Plastics industry and trade | Vinyl chloride | Work environmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "One day in the early 1970s, Robert Whitman conducted a gruesome experiment at the dusty old factory where he worked in Passaic. With a bit of food, he captured four mice in a bucket and sprayed them with the vinyl chloride gas used at the plant to make plastics. A white cloud settled at the bottom of the pail. Whitman and three co-workers bent over to watch. The mice struggled, then froze. Word of their fate passed through the factory." (THE RECORD) This article discusses a class action lawsuit brought against Pantasote Inc., charging "that the U.S. plastics industry withheld information about vinyl chloride's deadly effects, both from workers and from the government."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Toxic Legacy, May 18, 2003; pp. A1+.
"One day in the early 1970s, Robert Whitman conducted a gruesome experiment at the dusty old factory where he worked in Passaic. With a bit of food, he captured four mice in a bucket and sprayed them with the vinyl chloride gas used at the plant to make plastics. A white cloud settled at the bottom of the pail. Whitman and three co-workers bent over to watch. The mice struggled, then froze. Word of their fate passed through the factory." (THE RECORD) This article discusses a class action lawsuit brought against Pantasote Inc., charging "that the U.S. plastics industry withheld information about vinyl chloride's deadly effects, both from workers and from the government."
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