[CPEO-BIF] View-Master health study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

View-Master health study seeks funds

Kevin Harden
Beaverton Valley Times (OR)
November 11, 2004

State health officials are hoping they can squeeze funds for a broad 
health study of former View-Master plant employees from Congress’ 
lame-duck session this fall.

Oregon’s congressional delegation is pushing for $700,000 or more to pay 
for a study of nearly 25,000 former Mattel View-Master employees who 
were exposed for three decades to the dangerous chemical 
trichloroethyline (TCE) in the Beaverton plant’s drinking water.

Epidemiologists with Oregon’s Department of Human Services say they need 
at least $4 million during the next three years to fund a full health 
study. Its findings could help determine how TCE affected the lives and 
health of people who worked at the Mattel View-Master plant on Southwest 
Hall Boulevard.

A draft report on the issue completed in June found that former 
View-Master employees died at rates sometimes six to eight times higher 
from kidney cancers and other digestive system illnesses than the 
general state population.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/article/5258

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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