>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 13:42:43 -0800 >Reply-To: "Camp. Resp. Tech." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: The Other Economic Summit USA 1997 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Camp. Resp. Tech." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Govt. shoots down cancer study of electronics workers >X-To: Susan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: U _______________________________________________________ >>Friends--a series of articles appeared in USA TODAY on the electronics >>industry and its impacts on workers. Please let me know if you would like >>to receive these electronically. Also, please respond if you would like to >join the crt list-serve. Apologies for multiple postings. > >A little article appeared in the Friday, January 16, 1998 USA Today > > >No Cancer Study: A proposal to study cancer and birth defects among >100,000 California electronics industry workers was shelved this week after >industry regulators and workers' advocates failed to agree to its merit and >methodology. At a meeting of an Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored >panel, the industry such a study would be better suited to agencies more >closely linked to occupational health. But, says Ted Smith, head of the >Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition in San Jose, the industry characterized the >study as a "fishing expedition: and does not want to address the issue. A >new proposal may be taken up by the National Institute for Occupational >Safety and Health or some other agency. > >copyright 1998, USA Today > > >Leslie Byster >Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition >760 N. First Street >San Jose, CA 95112 >408-287-6707-phone >408-287-6771-fax >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.svtc.org > > >>>NOW AVAILABLE AT OUR WEBSITE -- New information about our new book, SACRED >>WATERS: LIFE-BLOOD OF MOTHER EARTH, Four Case Studies of High-Tech Water >>Exploitation and Corporate Welfare in the Southwest >>> http://www.svtc.org/svtc/ >>> >>> >> >> >Leslie Byster >Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition >760 N. First Street >San Jose, CA 95112 >408-287-6707-phone >408-287-6771-fax >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>NOW AVAILABLE AT OUR WEBSITE -- New information about our new book, SACRED >WATERS: LIFE-BLOOD OF MOTHER EARTH, Four Case Studies of High-Tech Water >Exploitation and Corporate Welfare in the Southwest >> http://www.svtc.org/svtc/ >> >> >
