[CPEO-BIF] View-Master health study

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Money still lacking for View-Master health study
Attempts to assess the effect of chemicals spilled at the former plant in
Beaverton are on hold as researchers wait for funds

RICHARD COLBY
The Oregonian
September 8, 2005

BEAVERTON -- Potentially groundbreaking findings about the health effects
of a chemical dumped at the old View-Master site in Beaverton may be on
hold indefinitely as the project waits for federal money.

A state agency has begun looking into whether trichloroethylene -- or TCE
-- in drinking water could have harmed workers at the now-demolished toy
plant.

The site is considered a unique and valuable opportunity to study the
chemical's health effects, but researchers still haven't received money for
the study's initial or later phases. All told, the research project is
expected to cost $2 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/beaverton/index.ssf?/base/metr
o_west_news/1126004272160840.xml&coll=7


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