Pesticides/Brain Tumors/Rohm & Haas Co.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-brain-tumor-study,0,5374451.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines

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Rohm and Haas, the nation's sixth-largest chemical company, declined to release details of the 12 cases. However, the newspaper gathered information about eight of them through interviews with relatives and co-workers.

At least four people worked in or near a lab that developed pesticides, and at least five had similar kinds of tumors. Other cases appear unrelated.

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In 1986, Rohm and Haas paid more than $24 million to settle lawsuits over lung cancer linked to chemical exposure at its plant in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia, while denying any wrongdoing.

The company said in 1975 that 27 people had died from the exposure to bis-chloromethyl ether, a contaminant known as BCME. An Inquirer investigation at the time found twice as many deaths, dating back to 1955, among exposed workers.
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another recent report said all of america's rivers, creeks, lakes, etc. are full of pesticides ............ thus so are we.