From:          JANETTE D. SHERMAN,  M. D.

PO Box 4605

Alexandria, VA 22303

toxdoc.js@verizon.net

www.janettesherman.com

 

To:             THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

 

Re:              Files transferred to the  NLM  on November 13, 2008

                  NLM Accession Number:  2008-073

 

HHH through SSS

Pesticide files: these 12 boxes contain data from early years about specific chemicals, specific researchers, and specific corporations arranged A through Z, and arranged chronologically by chemical.

 

TTT    

Research conducted of the Jervis Corporation chrome plating plant in Bolivar, TN, owned by Sidney Harman.

In Michigan I had reported serious adverse effects upon workers  in the chrome plating industry, and was asked to do a health study of the workers at the TN plant.  It was sponsored by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, the Institute of Policy Studies, and Harvard University.

Contains worker health data and correspondence.

 

UUU 

Booth Family

PBB (polybrominated biphenyl) case in involving Michigan Chemical Co., a subsidiary of Velsicol Chemical Co. that contaminated the food supply of the state of MI. (The PBB toxicology data were sent previously and archived under Carton No. PP).

 

VVV

Raymond Fiddler and Dorothy Fiddler

PBB (polybrominated biphenyl) case in Michigan.

 

WWW

Szeluga, Charles - PBB

The first and only case to go to trial vs. Velsicol Chemical Co..

Mr. Szeluga mixed chemicals at the Farm Bureau plant that contaminated the Michigan food supply with PBBs. Contains medical reports, correspondence and my cross-examine testimony at trial on Feb. 27/28, 1980.

(See Carton No. PP archived previously for background toxicology data).  See separate folder with correspondence between attorney and me regarding harassment and threats to discredit my testimony, plus notes in regard to Judge Hausner for protection from harassment.

 

XXX

Carter, Theron

Mr. CarterÕs dairy farm in Mich. was contaminated by PBB.  Descriptions of his sick farm animals are included.  

 

YYY

Stinger, Christopher.

Hydrazine, kidney cancer death case.

Related to the CO water contamination cases and rocket testing by Martin Marietta Corp.

 

ZZZ

Toll, Barbara

Dursban (chlorpyrifos) contamination of home in TX.

Medical and legal records.

 

#101

Harrier, Ernest

Colon cancer death: PBBs and TRIS exposure when he was a worker at the Michigan Chemical Co.

 

#102

Heinrich, Paul vs. Goodyear Tire Co. (This goes with data in Cartons X and Y that were sent previously in 2006.)

 

#103

Breast Cancer and Pesticides in Hawaii

Pub. by Allen, Gottlieb, Clute, Pongrisi, Sherman and Obrams.

Published paper, background data, and some materials assembled by E. Clute.

 

#103-A  Carton: Pesticides and cancer in Hawaii

This contains the background data for the research and publication of several reports and the cancer study done via the Pacific Biomedical Research Center, Univ. of Hawaii.  It includes pesticide use and water contamination in HI.

Included are data from the 1970s.

Specific documents include:

Identification of irrigation return water in the sub-surface, Kahuku, Oahu, and Kahului & Lahaiba, Maui, U. of HI, 1970.

Hawaii Epidemiologic Studies Program, Community Pesticide Study, U of HI, 1975-76.

Hawaii Epidemiologic Studies Program, Community Pesticide Study, 1976-77.

Pesticide Usage Patterns in Hawaii, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, 1977.

Population Characteristics of Hawaii, 1980.

Statistical Report, Dept. Health, State of Hawaii, 1987.

Cancer Patterns in Hawaii 1960-64 and 1968-72.

 

#104 

Bartley, Russell - Rubber worker with cancer. ( A workersÕ compensation case.) (This case can be filed with the rest of the Workers Compensation Cases that were transferred from Western Michigan University to the NLM in 2006.)

 

#105

Health Research Group Study on Disease Among Workers in the Auto Industry, 1973. By J. D. Bigelow-Sherman, S. Wolfe, A. Hricko, M. Mets.  Includes background data for the General Motors Improvement Project, and my contribution of information from Saginaw, MI foundry workers.

(Ralph Nader founded the Health Research Group which supported this research.)

 

#106

Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Southeastern Michigan  (Occupational Safety and Health Planning Committee) - 1972 (This was partly in response to the Health Research Group report, but little was accomplished to protect workers health, but it did stir up worry from corporate interests.)

 

#107

Correspondence with Michigan State Univ. School of Labor and Industrial Relations regarding talks I gave to workers and community citizens.  1972/73.

 

#108

Medical Committee for Human Rights & Occupational Health Project.  Correspondence & background info.  1975.

 

 

#109

Correspondence with J. A. Hayes, MD and the  Mallory Inst. of Pathology, in Boston, and George P. Lewis, MD of the Lemuel Shattuck Hosp. in Boston regarding analysis of lung samples from workers with lung cancer.  1975.

 

#110

Correspondence OCAWU re:  testimony before Congress regarding noise in the workplace. 1975

 

#111

Correspondence and Handout Information prepared for the Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of America, Meeting in Washington, DC on July 1983.

 

#112

World Conference on Breast Cancer, Ottawa, Canada, July 1999.  Correspondence, abstracts, program, etc.

 

#113

University of Wisconsin correspondence.  I taught classes to union members through the School for Workers, that included people from the International Molders Union and Allied Worker’s Union (foundry workers).   1975-78

 

#114

Correspondence with Ralph Nader, and the Health Research Group, pending analysis and publication of the autoworker study, 1971-78

 

#115

Phillips Kirstan.  - Pesticide poisoning case, heard in the High Court of Hong Kong, involving a musician poisoned by pesticides while at practice with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.  This case can be filed with the other worker’s compensation cases.

 

#116

Background materials given to me by BBC reporter, Fisal Ali, in regard to the Kirstan Philips case (#115).  Most are British sources.

 

#117

Stinger, Christopher - kidney cancer case related to hydrazine exposure.  A worker’s compensation case in NJ

 

#118

Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System and Greenpeace legal submissions to stop the pollution from the site.

 

#119

Abrasives

Acrolein

Acrylics

Acrylonitrile

Adipose tissue testing

Air bags

Air craft worker exposures

Alkyl phosphates

 

#120

Alkylene glycols

Allen Industiries (Detroit) correspondence regarding

Aluminum

Alzheimers

Amer. Assoc. Orthopedic Medicine meeting

Amer. Cancer Soc.

National Cancer Legislation advisory committee

Amer. College of Toxicology correcpondence, programs, and

abstracts from 1980, to the final meeting 1994 when the ACT would not support the academic, non-industry speakers, and I resigned.

         Separate folders on speakers from the 1994 meeting.

American Legion

Correpondence with Adm. Elmo Zumwalt and Richard Christian re: Agent Orange and Veterans illnesses.

Ames, B. & Ames tests - early articles

AMA  - early corresp. 1970s

American Public Health Assoc. meetings and abstracts

         1979 to 1996

Amer. Soc. Preventive Oncology

Amer. Thorasic Soc. & early corresp. 1981-82

Amines and Cancer

Amphetamines

Amphibian deaths

Amyloidosis & early literature

Anesthesia and birth defects & Dr. Thomas Corbett corresp.

Animal to human extrapolation

Animal drugs (in food)

Anthrax

Antihistamines and birth defects

Aplastic Anemia (background for pesticide study in HI)

Aromatic amines

Arsenal (herbicide)

 

#121

Arsenic 1940 to current.

         Incudes Ford Motor Co. battery arsenic death cases

         Arsenic in wood-treating products

        

#122

Atherosclerosis

Arts & occupational hazards

Ashford, Nicholas

Assoc. of Birth Defects Children - correspondence & info.

Aspartame

Asphalt

Apirin

Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of Amer. Speaker 1982 in Toronto

         and 1982  in Honolulu

Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of Amer.  Speaker 1996 in Boston

         Occup. Diseases in auto workers

         Pesticides and birth defects

Assoc, of Trial Lawyers of Amer

         Determning causation in toxic tort cases  1983

Atromid and deaths

Amer. Thoracic Soc. - corresp. 1978

ATSDR -  peer review of research & correspondence

Auchter, Thorne - former head of OSHA

Autoimmune diseases and chemicals and pharmaceuticals

Attorneys - misc.

Auto workers study done with the Health Research Group 1973.

Raw data and death cetificates.

Letter Oct. 1979 indicating NIOSH no longer had funding to follow up on the auto worker sudy.

Autex Corp.  VA

Azides & toxicol.

Benzal- Benzo- & Benzyl compounds

Bis-chloro methyl ether (BCME) in work environments. 

I  was a consultant to NIOSH & Bendix Lauch Support re:  BCME and the space shuttle. I traveled to the space shuttle site in FL.  Correpondence, etc.  1975

Bendectin - one of the first birth defects cases.  Includes legal

correspondence and documnts

Bendix, Selena, PhD. (deceased) Toxicologist and Member of TSCA Committee

Benzidine

Benzene- chloro compounds

Benzdiazepines

Beryllium

Bhopal

 

#123

Bibliographic sources

Biological markers

Biotechnology

Bio-Test Lab, and falsified test results

EUROCAT - European Birth Defects registry

         Note increases in 1986 after Chernobyl

Birth Defects of the brain (2 large folders)

Birth defects  caudal

Birth defects & economic costs

Birth deffcts  in Hawaii

Birth defects - ABC

Birth defects & chemical exposures

Brth defects   in Calif.

Birth defects - syndromes

Birth defects & NRC/EPA conf. 1995

Bis-phenyl A

Blacks & Occup. Exposures

Blood Dyscrasias (Hawaii) correspondence and clinical data

1970s

Blood dyscrasias & NCI analysis of my Hawaii data

Blood donors & chemical contaminaiton

Body fat contmination

Boeing Corp. worker illnesses

Boilermakers Union

Bolivar, TN Project.  Sidney HarmonÕs crome plating plant  - more data

Bovine Groth Hormone (BGH)

Brain & chemicals

Breast cancer Action and Breast Cancer Fund

Breast cancer in males

Breast cancer- Long Island

Breast Implants - Dow  Silicone data

Brodeur, Paul  - articles and correpondence

Business

Busulfan

Butadiene

Butadiene & Styrene & worker exposures

Butyraldehyde and nasal cancer

Byssinosis and Brown Lung Assoc. in SC

Cadmium

c-APM (cyclic AMP)

Canada - Health Problems

Canada & wildlife

 

#124

Cancer & NY Acad. Sci. Meeting 1975

         Ò        1970Õs & 1980Õs

         Ó        agiculture

                 in animals - John Harshbarger, PhD  data

                 assays (1975)

                 and benzene (2 large folders) 1934- 1980s

                 biomarkers & data from Dr. J. Beaubier (EPA)

                 and Blacks - 1970s

                 Bladder 1950s, 1970s

                 Brain

                 Brain and Pesticides

                 Breast / Pesticides - Dr. Ruth Allen (EPA/NCI)

                                  and Pregnancy

                         Benedectine Hosp. (NY) biopsy and assays for pesticides and PCBs

                 Canada

        causation

        Breast – Environ.  Hlth. Perspect. 1997

        Breast -  Dept. Defense

        Breast -  Falsification of research by NCI & NSABBP

World Conf. On Breast Cancer - Canada 1997

Cancer & Inflammatory Breast cancer

Cancer - Breast & Ionizing radiaiton, NCI –1999

WomenÕs Community Cancer Project 1995

Cancer & Calcium channel blocking drugs

Carcinogenesis and adjuvants

Cancer - cervical

Cancer -  Calif. List of carcinogens 1987

Cancer  &    Chemists

         í        Children

                 Chlorophenols

                   Chlorine compounds

                 Chromosomes

                 Dr. Devra DavisÕ articles

 

#125

Cancer        Economics 1977-

                 Estrogen use

                 ENT

                 Epidmiology

                 Esophagus/ gastric

                 Environment

                 Etiology, including my deposition 1979 re: cancer in a

chemical worker

Cancer Center of Hawaii- 1979

Cancer        Breast - Treatment

        China

                 Colon

                 in fish and clams

                 Gastro-intestinal

                 Hawaii & occup.

                 Hodgkins

                 Health Research Group & OCAWU petition before

OSHA, US Dept. Labor. 1972

                 General Motors cancers/ Mich. Cancer Foundation

                  conflict of interest - 1979

                 incidence conf. 1991

Carcinogens & Interagency Group Report 1986

Cancer        Kanawha Valley, WV - 1978

                 Kidney

        Larynx - corresp. with UK Indust. Injuries Advisory

Cancer        Council

        Legal

Leukemias

Cancer-       liver

                 lung

        Overview of Lung Cancer lecture given 1978

sponsored by Amer. Lung Assoc.

Cancer        Lymphomas

                 Mechanisms

                 Melanoma & chmeically related

                 Metals

                Metastases

        Mich. Cancer Fdn., Sinai Hosp. And Tri-Country area

 

#126

Cancer        Long Island Breast Cancer study 1993 to current

                  multiple folders

Cancer & and mutagens

                 myelofibrosis

                 nasal

                 neurocarcinogenesis

                 No threshold

                 Occupational

                          Ò                 lecture hand-out and notes

                 oral

                 OSHA

                 ovarian

                 Pacific basin studies and meeting 1978

                 Pancreatic

                 and petroleum

                and Politics

                 and Poverty

                 Prevention

                 probability and asbestos expos.

                 prostate

                 Rates and Risks

                Risk assessment

                 Salivary glands

                 San Francisco cancer cluster

                 sarcoma & chemicals

Cancer        skin

                 Campbell, James, Dr. - Ottawa, corresp.

                testes

                 theories 1960s & 70s

 

#127

Cancer        tongue

                 tumors (background for medical school paper)

                           1950s  and earlier

                 UAW

                 Uterine in San Francisco Bay area

                 Vetrans 1987

                 WilmÕs tumor

                 Trends  from EPA 1983

CCHW Meeting - Oct. 1988 - New Orleans

         First Annual Scientific Assembly

CCHW Meeting of Jan. 10, 1989

Cell phones

Censorship re: Herb Needleman

Census form

CERCLA sites - 1989

CHE members 2006

Chemical accidents

                 hypersensitivity

                 illness

Chemical sensitivity & NJ Report 1989

                                           Cullen report 1989

                                           corresp.

Chemical structures

                 Exposures  1978-80

                 Testing in humans

Campbell, James, MD – Ottawa & Canad. Cancer studies

Carbonless Carbon Paper & (Boise Cascade case data) &        

         Toxicology  10 folders

Carcinogens & Federal Regulations - 1980s

 

#128

Carcinogens

                          Calif.

                          1942- 79

                          1979  Risk Est.

                          1980s

                          1990s

                 Electrophiles

                 Lectures - JDS

                 Mixed bibliog.  1970s

                 NCI tested

                 Occupational

                 Potencey

                 Species difference 1972

                 Structure – Actvity relationships

Capoten 1987

Carbamate & tumors

Carbon black, included govÕt  regulations

Carbon disufide

Carbon tetrachloride

Cardiac biochemistry and papers by Richard Bing and other Faculty at

Wayne State Univ.  1950s - on

Cardiology 1960s

Carnow, Bertram Dr.

Carpet chemicals

Carpenters - mortality study

Carpenters Union in Hawaii & corresp.

Castle & Cook Corp.

Catechol - 1970s

Chemicals & Top 50 in production - 1980

Chemical Weapons

Chemotherapy  Hazards handling drugs - 2 folders

ChidrensÕ health & computer sites

Child Labor conf. 1992

Chloramphenicol

Chlorine cmpounds & reproduciton

Chlorinated benzenes

 

#129

Chloroacetophenone (MACE)

Chloro-alkenes

Chloro benzenes    1980

Chloroethanes 1980

Chloro- alkyl compds.

Chlorobutanol

Chlorofluro compds.  1978-83

Chloroform

Chloromehyl ether 1970-80

Chloro- phenols

Chloroprene (Neoprene) 2 folders (early info.)

Chromic acid 1973

Chromium compds. 1970s - 3 large forders

Chrome plating (Patient records already submitted)

Chromosome aberrtions & chemicals

Chronic fatigue

Chrysler Workers with Cancer (records of 15)

Cincinnati Right to Know Ordinance 1982

Clomiphine (Clomid) & Birth defects toxicology

 

#130

Coal

Coatings (paints) MSDS   PPG Industries

Coke Oven Emissions (2 folders)

Colborn, Theo, Dr. papers and corresp.

Collegium Ramazzini

Composites and aircraft workers

Confined space hazards.  Mich.  1977-80

Copper

Copy machine chemicals

Co-enzyme Q-10

Corporate pollution

Cosmetics - chemical composition

Cox-2 drugs

CPSC  1978-80

Creosote 1978 – EPA

Cresols

Criminal case- Dow Corp. 1986

Cuba & chemically related diseases

Curene - Mich. Cancer cases and clean-up 1978

Cyanide

Dalcon shield

Davis, Devra, PhD - articles

Darvon

Death Data statistics in Hawaii 1910-50

Death statistics 1970s

Delrin plastic - Dupont

Dementia

DES Diethyl stilbestrol

Detoxification - Health Med Calif.

Diabetes Paper - JDS reserch done as NIH Fellow at Sinai

         Hospital in Detroit - footnotes and background info.

Diabetes - Foa, Piero, MD (Chief at Sinai)

         Ò        toxic agents

Diabenese

 

#131

Di-chloroisocynurate (sanitizer)

Dichloroethylene

Dichloroethane

Dichloropropene

Diesel fuel

Diet – Dr. Adlercreutz (Finland) info. & corresp.

Diet & cancer

Diet - genetically engineered

Diethylamine

Dilantin - adverse effects

Dimethyl foramide

Dioxane (2 folders)

Dioxins

Disulfiram (Anabuse) plus documents from Ayerst

         12 folders 1949-86 adverse effects

         Time line from 1881-1982 who knew what & when

Diuretcs and arrhythmias

Diuretics and potassium effects

DNA

Down Syndrome (chromosome 21) & pollution

Drug addiction in Detroit. 

         Corresp. with Prosec. Atty. Edward Ferris and Judge John Swainson

Drug Companies and costs

Drugs No efficacy

Drug reactions

Drug testing

 

 

#132

Dow Chemical Co. - Corp. reports

Dow Chemical Co. - birth defects decision - Dursban 1997

Dry cleaning - heath hazards

Dump:  Berlin and Farrow site in Calif. +  chemical list

Dumps - socio-economics

Dumps - Virginia

Dumping Syndrome 1960s - background for Med. School

         Research paper

DuPont & W. VA plant - chemicals (2 folders)

                 corresp.  (plant had a chemical explosion in 1993)

                 Agricultural chemicals MSDS

Dyes - carcinogenic

Ebola virus

Economics 1970s

Econonics & politics  (2 folders)

                 - Phildelphia Inquirer 1991

Embrology   Dursban birth defect case exhibits

Epidemiology - Internat. Soc. Environ. Epi. -  Aug. 1996

         Edmonton, Alberta  (speaker)

Electromagnetic fields

Endocrinology 1967 U. of Mich meeting

 

#133

Environmental Health Fdn. Meeting 1996

                                  

                          contamination

                          Justice

EPA - 1976  (I ws a member of the Toxic Subst. Control

         Act Committee 1976-82

Chair of the Risk Assessment sub-group, and

Member of the Carcinogen policy sub-group.

EPA - extensive correspondence with EPA and members

         of the committees

EPA - 1980

EPA-  1990

EPA - Adverse reaction reports

EPA -  Endocrine disrupters 1996

Epichlorhydrin 1949 - on

Epstein, Sam, MD - Stop Cancer Campaign 2003

Epidemiology 1959 - on

Epoxides

Estrogenic substances (2 folders)

Estrogens - Environmental

Ethers- halo compds.

Ethics

Ethyl benzene

Ethylenes

Ethylene dibromide

Ethylene dichloride

Ethylene oxide (Dioxane)     1960s 1970s

Ò        Ò                      1980s

Ethylene glycol

Export of hazardous factories to developing nations

 

#134

Farmworker hazards

Fat samples - human contamination

FDA

FDA  adverse drug Rxn forms

Fentanyl (drug)

Firbomyalgia

Fibrotic lung disease

Firefighters - toxicol.

         Ò                 Bendix, Selena data

Fire/flame retardants

Firfog toxicol.

Fire Hazards following 9/11- JDS  Howard Univ. lecture 2001

Fish with cancers - Harshbarger data

    Ò     and toxic chemicals

Fish kills - Richmond, CA Harbor channel & others places

Fluorides

Fluoride and the atomic bomb

Food contamination with hormone-disrupters

Food & plastic contam.

Formaldehyde (3 folders)

Formaldehyde - Manuscript  by JDS 1987 and records of

         patients exposed to formaldehyde

Foundry work   1938 - 75

 

#135

Foundry work 1970s

                         1977-82

                         Bibliography 1938-84  by JDS 

                         & cancer

                         correspondence

Fragrances – toxic components

FOI  Act

Free radicals & tumors

Freons

Fuel - toxicol.

Fuel - contamination

Fungi & cancer

Gallium

Garlic research - Penn State U.

Gasoline

                 MSDS – Shell Oil Co.

Gasoline

General Electric Corp.  1985, 87 & 91

                                 Nuclear and toxic contam.

       

Genes         (4 folders)

Genome map & data

General Motors

Germanium

Germany Meeting at Univ. Kiserslauten Oct. 1996

My paper:  Endocrine disrupting chemicals in food and the environment – pblic health risks and societal concerns

GIS systems

Glass fiber disease

Global warming

Glucagon  1968-

 

# 136

Glycol ethers

Grain elevator workers & 1975 corresp.

Granulomatous lung disease 1970s

Great Lakes and toxins (2 folders)

Grinders & lung diseases 1949 -

Guillette, Louis, PhD - endocrine disrupting chemicals

Gulf War (First)  illnesses

                - Pesticide exposures

                - Research proposal  (Amer. Legion

          & multip. corresp. with Adm. Elmo Zumwalt

            throughout folders

               - Children

          Ò      - Health & Environ. Digest – JDS paper published

Mar. 1995, correspondence

                US Senate hearing 1994

Gulf War     list of pesticides used by military

                  Israeli studies

                  Syndrome meeting May 1995  

                  Sterns correspondence

                  Kuwait study  by Woods Hole

                  Mycobacteria

                  Desert Storm Justice Fdn.

Gulf War     Pesticides (final paper)  1992

                  Meeting with Bernard Rostker at Pentagon 1996

                  Follow-up meeting with Rand Corp. people

Halcion (drug)

Halogenated solvents and cardiac arhthmias

Harshbarger, John, PhD  fish cancer studies

Hawaii         air pollution

Hawaii         pesticide use

Hawaii         cancers 1970s

         Ò        health status

                 Ocean and beach contamination

          Heptachlor contam. & implications for breast cancer

                 Vital statistics 1900 - 1990s

 

#137

Hazard assessment

HCGH (Human chorianic gonadotropin)  1960s & links to cancer

Health care - lack of universal coverage

Heart disease & work stress

Heat stress

Hexamethylene tetra amine

Hippocratic oath

Home pollution

Hrmones in meat produciton

Hormones in the environ.

Hormones in food

Hooker Chem. Co. (contamination site became Love Canal in NY state)

Hydraulic fluids

Hydrazine

Hydrocarbon pnumonia

Hydrocephalus

Hygoton (chlorthalidone)  1966-

Hyperkinesis

Hyperkinesis and chemicals - search

Hypertension

Hypochlorite toxicity - incl. Biblio.

Hypoglycemia

Hypogeusia

Hypothalamic disease & neuroendocrinology

         Implicatons in anorexic nervosa

Iao School (Maui, HI) and arsenic contamination 1978

ICI Chemical Co. (data used in my book)

I G Farben

Ilka, Douglas – reporter - of cancer in GM model maker employees

Immunology & biol. Markers

                          silica related

                          Stringfellow Toxic Dump site (CA)

 

#138

Immunology-  ÒAlong the immunological trail with gun and

cameraÓ JDS Pediatrics paper Med. School, 1963

Immunology         1933-69

                          1972-90

Immunotoxicity

Implantation biology research

Incinerator - E. Liverpool, OH

         Corresp. and data from Terry Swearingen, RN

Incinerator -  Liquid Disposal  Co. (MI) cancer, patient records

         Ò                 Montgomer Co., MD

Incinerators - gov’t and misc. data

Indocin       -adverse reports from FDA  1983

Industy secret ties and cancer

Infertility

INH (isoniazid) 1970s

Insulin release 1960s

Insulinoma 1960s

Intellectual decline

IPPNW (International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War

Internat. Conf. Socio-economics  meeting Apr. 1995

Internat Soc. Exposure analysis meeting

         GeothermalEmissions in Hawaii: Environmental Inequity

Isocyanates 1968 -   (2 folders)

Isocyanate, methyl (Bhopal exposure)

Kanawha Valley, WV - site of multiple chemical companies

Jet aircraft fuel

Kersosene & toxic effecs

Kidney disease & chemicals (2 folders)

 

#139

Koppers Corp.  & toxic chems.

Koppers & Occup. Health study

Labeling      - FDA & US Code

                 - EPA  Chem. Hazard Warning Codes

                 - NIOSH regulaitons

Laborers Union

Labs & fraudulent testing

Lactic acidosis, diabetes mellitus, and the biguanide

compounds, JDS and Foa, P.  pub. 1969

Laidlow Corp.

Lancaster , PA.  Family Practice Review Course that I taught,

 materials, correspondence.  March 1995

Latex

Lead (4 folders)

Lead           - Neurotoxicity

Lead           - Dr. Herbert NeedlemanÕs work

Learning disabilties

Lecture - chem. structures, carcinogens and mechanisms

Legal -  expert testimony

Legal -  Paoli Railroad Yard PCB Litigation (PA)  1994   

Legal - secrecy problems

Legal -  Kelly Frye test

Legator, Marvin, PhD Stringfellow Toxic Site - critique

Leukemia

                 - New Jersey Drinking water contamination

Librium       1960s

 

#140

Lilly Corp. & business info.

Lincocin/Cleocin &         adverse effects

                                  Wallace Bonney case 1984

                                  Muilenberg case

Lipids - human tissue sampling

Lorelco       Dow Chem. Co. -  cholesterol drug

Love Canal & Environmental Defense Fund - human subjects review

 committee 1980

Lung Disease        -  1960s

                             1970s

                             1980s

Lung Disease        Occupational

Lupus due to Dilantin drug use. (Includes time-line analysis

1950 to 1978)

Mad Cow disease

Male sterility and  occupation

Mammography (2 folders)]

         Ò                 -  Canadian issues

Magnaflux- indutrial chemical

Marsh Plating Co., (MI) Eleven patients exposed to chrome plating chemicals. 

This analysis was  used as an example for the Risk Assesment Group when

 I served on the EPA Toxic Substances. Control Comm.  1978

Matsunaga, Spark Senator from HI - corresp.  1980s

Maui, HI      pollution               1980s

                 water pollution      1980s

Meclozine and birth defects

Mehlman, Myron, PhD  - court decision and corresp.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

                                                   - legal decisions

                                                   -  workplace  1993

                                                   - Baltimore meeeting 1994

                                                   - Nat. Res. Council

                                                   - RISE - JDS speaker 9/95

Medical Monitoring - includes Oxnard, CA dump site

 

 

 

#141

Mercury

Metals & toxicity

Metformin  (anti-diabetic drug)

Methapyrilene

Methyl ethyl ketone

Methyl isocyanate

Methylene chloride         1970s

                                  1980s (2 folders)

Methylene dianiline         (carcinogenicity)

Mexico Border (occup. Health)

Microwaves

Migrant Legal Aid Program 1979-80s (2 folders)

I testifed on behalf of migrant workers, poisoned by pesticides.

Migrant workers

Migrant Workers & Parathion poisoning, Batesville, VA 1985

Military Medical Research  1994

Minorities

Mitochondia

MOCA methylene-bis-orthochloroaniline & cancer

Model Makers and cancer (auto industry) 1979/80

Molybdebum  1970s

Monitoring for toxic effects

Monsanto - Monitoring, medical - Brio Toxic site, TX 1989.  The following

Monsanto documents were used in the Brio, TX toxic site case - 1989

Monsanto - patents on hydrocraking processes

                 - Corporation info.

                 - Texas cancer death certificates of workers

          - Plastics Division Research Library list of Toxicity

         and Safety Bibliography

       - Articles from Monsanto library 1936- 1952 showing state of

         knowledge of toxicology

        - Library 1942-49

        -  Articles from Library (1950 to 1957) showing state- of-the-art

knowledge

Monsanto - Bibliography generated from Library list 1936- to 1956 and other

articles

Morpholine corresp.

MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether)

 

#142

Multiple sclerosis - etiologies proposed

                         - Harrison Township, PA - possible Cluster 1996

Muskegon, MI - toxic sites

Mutagens  1970s and carcinogens, plus teratogen links

Myasthenia gravis - research materials and paper written by me

in 1964 when in Medical School and on the Neurology

Service, Receiving Hospital

NAFTA       & occup. Diseases 1993/94

Naphtha in New Paltz, NY schools

Naphthenates

                          & cancer, DNA, etc.

                          -Shell Oil research

                 - US Army Env. Hygiene Agency- Aberdeen

 Proving Ground – toxicol. data

Naphthenates        Mooney Chemical, Inc., Toxicol. Data

                          - efficacy as wood preservatives

                          - inhalational toxicity (Biosearch, Inc.)

                          - oral toxicity

                          - carcinogen study - Mooney Chem. Co.

Naphthylamine

Native Americans

National Health Lab - fraud conviction 1992

Nat. Acad. of Sci.  meeting Apr. 1990

Nat. Acad. Sci. meeting April 2002

Nerve Agents - Info. About I. G. Farben and the use by

         the Nazis

Neurology (World Fed. of  Neurol.) meeting, Apr. 1988

         My paper:  Chlordane neurotoxicity

Neuropsychiatric toxicol.

Neurotoxic solvents

                          organophosphates 1960s

Neurotoxicology -          1970s (2 folders)

                                   1980s

                                   1990s

Neurotoxicol. paper presented New Orleans, Oct. 1988

         The First Annual Sci. Assembly for Environ. Health

Neurotoxicol. Paper presented Miami, FL, May 1990

         Chemically-induced neurotoxicty

Neurotoxicity  1989-90

Neurotoxicol 1960s to 1980s

Nickel

NIOSH requirements to get a hanzard investigation

Nitroglycerine (1898- ) occupational exposure

Nitrosamines

Noise (occupational hazard)

 

#143

Noise (contÕd)

Noise Hearing US House of Rep., July 1975, copies of

testimonies.  I also testified.

Nonyl phenol

Nordback - resin used as coating, Patents and MSDSs

         Rexnord, WI is manufacturer

Nordback    - Kaze, Roy, Nevada case involving use of product in

mining operations

Nose

Nitotriacetic acid (NTA) used in laundry detergents

NYAS (New York Acad. Sciences)  Meeting: The Scientific Basis for the Public Control of Environ. Health Hazards.  Program and notes.  July 1978.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. – Love Canal

Occupaional health – Òhealthy worker effectÓ Sterling, T.        

         Ò        Ò        - 1945- 1979

         Ò        Ò        -  1970s

         Ò        Ò        -  1980- 1990s

         Ò        Ò        - Black workers

         Ò        Ò        - Costs

         Ò        Ò        - Criminal conviction

         Ò        Ò        - High Risk – US Senate Hearings 1987

         Ò        Ò        - History taking

         Ò        Ò        - Home manufacturing

         Ò        disease law 1989 US Senate

         Ò             Ò   - Thomas Mancuso paper

         Ò             Ò   - Mexico

         Ò             Ò   - Wayne County Medical Soc, Detroit, MI

                                        almost totally controlled by industry physicians

 Occupational health – worker training

         Ò                 Ò     - Survey

Ò        Lung Disease course – Amer. Thoracic Soc., Cincinnati, Ohio,

May 1974 

Ò        diseases - political

Oceanic Institute, Oahu, HI  1980s  (includes 9 slide photos)

Oil Industry

Oils in water pumps  (PCBs)

Oils – lubricating and cutting fluids – occup. Expoures

Olfactory system

Olivine sands in foundry operations, include. EPA corresp.

 

#144

Oral Medicine and Toxicology conf. May 1991 – Pittsburgh

I was a speaker

Organochlorine compounds in human tissue

Orphenadrine (Norflex) and adverse effects (2 folders)

OSHA –      no date

         Ò        1971

         Ò        1972

         Ò        1973

         Ò        1974-79

         Ò        1980-87

OSHA-State of Michigan – incudes copies of 17 worker

report complaints sent to the State – never any reply.

Ozone 1970s

Paint – automotive industry

Ò    - Dupont and Ford Motor Plant in Pico Rivera, CA  1979

Paint – neurotoxicity

Pancreatitis – 1970s

Paper Mill toxicity – Kimberly Clark,  1977

Para amino biphenyl – bladder cancer, 1978

ParkinsonÕs disease & pesticides

Pattern makerÕs cancers – Auto Industry - Detroit 1981

PBBs – Poly brominated biphenyls (Shetreet case from

Israel invoving PBB releases from a TV set, 1998).

PCBs Poly chlorinated biphenyls (include. Dioxins and

Furans in the later literature)     These articles and files

were legal exhibits in the PCB contamination site.

  Ò               1874-1927

  Ò               1934- 37

  Ò               1930 – 39

  Ò               1940- 50

  Ò               1951- 61

  Ò               1960 – 76

  Ò               1972- 74

  Ò               1975- 76

  Ò               1977

  Ò               1978

  Ò               1979

  Ò               1980 – 81

  Ò               1984

 

#145

PCBs 1985- 86

  Ò               1987

  Ò               1988 – 89

  Ò               1990

  Ò               1991

  Ò`              1992

  Ò               1993

  Ò               Hudson River contamination

Peer Review EPA & others done by me.

Pentachlorophenols

Perchlorate – contam. Food

Perchlorethylene    1929- 1980s

         Ò                 -biblio.  –JDS

         Ô                 Dow Chem. Co. documents

         Ò                 Foster, Hugh vs Dow Chem. Co.  case

Peroxides – and tumor induction

Pertussis vaccination Parke Davis & Dow legal cases

         Ò                 Ò        scientific articles 1936 – 55

Petroleum storage & contam.

Pfiesteria 1998-99

Pharmaceuical Companies 1993-94

Phenformin (Lactic acidosis, diabetes mellitus, and the

biguanide compounds. By JDS and P. Foa, pub. Acta Diabetologica Latina, 1969

Phenols       1979-80

      Ò           1895- 1979

Phenol Patents 1930- 72

Phenyl ethers

Phenylbutazone & aplastic anemia 1960- 70s

 

 #146

Phenylketonuria (include. Biblio. 1934-1960

Phenylpropylamine (diet drug)

Photographic chemicals (Agfa & Kodak)

Phthalates 1952- 1985 (2 folders)

Phthalimide

Picciano, Dante – publications

Piperazines

Piroxicam 1982 antiinflammatory

Plastics – epoxies

         Ò        & cancer 1967

         Ò        1986

         Ò        in food containers, corresp. with FDA & Sen. Matsunaga of HI

Plastics Gen. Electric

Plastics

Plastics -  multiple different ones

Pneumoconiosis

Poisons

Political       – 1960s

         Ò        - 1980s – 1990s

         Ò        1990s

Pollution- Arctic & Canada

         Ò        - Air

         Ò        - Detroit & the poor

         Ò        - Economics

         Ò        - General 1980s 1990s

         Ò        - Hawaii

         Ò        - Indoor

         Ò        - Mexico

         Ò        - Michigan

         Ò        -Russia

Polycyclics 1966-

Polymer fume fever (Meat wrappersÕ asthma)

Polyurethanes (isocyanates)

Polyvinyl chloride

Porphyrins

 

#147

Poverty & Illness

Precautionary principle

Premarin

Printing industry

Prolactin

Prostaglandins 1968

Prozac

Puberty

PVF  (Pulmonary Ventilatory Function)

Pyridine (used in manuf. of pesticides)

Picolene/ Pyridine

Pyridoxine

Pyridostigmine synergism (used in Gulf War)

Raloxifene (Evista)

Relafen (drug taken off market)

Reif, John (Co. State U) – papers (cancer in animals)

Red dye #3

Reichold Chem Co. – Mississippi

Reserpine

Respiratory disease

Reuber, Melvin, MD – fired for warning about peticides

Rezulin – drug taken of market

Right to Know Laws

         Ò        Ò        Know Legislation

Risks

Rubber workers             1800s to 1939

         Ò        Ò                 1940- 49

         Ò        Ò                 1950- 59

         Ò        Ò                 1960-69

         Ò        Ò                 1970 –74

         Ò        Ò                 1975- 79

         Ò        Ò                 1980 – 89

         Ò        Ò                 corresp., news clippings and historic articles

         Ò        Ò                 some duplicate articles

 

#148

 

Rubber Corp. stock reports

Rubber curing N-(cyclohexylthio) phthalimide

         Ò        -Firestone Co.

Ò        - Foam

 

Rubber – Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. –litigation correspondence and court                         documents (3 folders)

Rubber – Goodyear cancer case summary (Full records

                  of patients were sent previously)

         Ò        - Goodyear  - Expert Summaries

         Ò        - Kelly-Springfield Tier Co. NLRB decision

         Ò        - No effect articles 1958-7

         Ò        - biblio. Search & raw requests

         Ò        - workers, legal  and corresp.

         Ò        - workers with cancer – Michigan cases

         Ò        - workers and list of chemicals to which each was

                           exosed & diagnoses

         Ò        - workers – Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Jackson,

                           Michigan

Sacchaine – Congressional Record May 1985

Safe, Stephen – CV

Sarafloxacin (antibiotic used in chicken raising)

Sarcoidosis 1970s

SASE (The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

                  Meeting – Vienna, Austria  July 1998

Scleroderma – chemically-induced

Scopolamine         – toxicology   1915-1988

         Ò                 - tabbed for testimony 3-3-90

         Ò                 - search

Secrecy in medical research 1996

Selacryn (ticrynafen) SKF – adverse reactions to anti-hypertensive drug

Seldane – drug

Selikoff, Irving J. – biblio.

Semiconductor Industry Study – Calif.

September 11, 2001

Sewage workers

Shaklee MSDSs

Shark cartilage – fake claims – cancer in fish species

Sheet metal workers – asbestos screening program in    

                  Hawaii & Geo. Wash. Univ.

Shell refinery- lekemia in HI workers

Shift work hazards

Sick Building illnesses

Sierra Club – Lower Mississippi cancer study –opposition corresp.

Silica-  1869- 1969

 

#149

Silica – toxicology          1970s

   Ò              Ò                 1980s

   Ò              Ò                 1990s

   Ò              Ò                 searches

Silicone breast implants  (5 folders)

         Ò        Ò                 -litigation

         Ò        implants- General Elect PCB contamination

Silicosis

Skin absoption (of toxic chemicals)

SLE (systemic lupus erythematosis)

Sleep & solvents

Smoking      - 1960s

         Ò        - 1970s

         Ò        - 1980s

         Ò        - 1990s

         Ò        - Ian Nisbet data   

         Ò        - SOEH conf. –1985

 

#150

Smoking      – second hand

Ò           -Office Technology Assessment, & corresp. with T. Sterling,  PhD – 1985

Smoking        & asbestos

         Ò        - tobacco additives

         Ò        - CBS transcript 1995

         Ò        - Brown & Williamson documents – JAMA 1995

Social – Econ., Ethics & Ethnicity – 1995

Society for Occup. & Environ Health) meeting notes

Speaker re: Women in the Workplace –1976

SOEH – Speaker, meeting notes & Transcript of my talk – 1980

SOEH -  Meeting- member governing council - 1985      

SOEH – Governing council – 1986

SOEH – corresp.

SOEH – 1987

SOEH –1993

Solvents –

         Ò        -  Insurance Company publication - 1960

         Ò        - 1961- 78 Amer. Indust. Hyg. Assoc.

         Ò        - 1980s

         Ò        - chlorinated 1956-60 Dow Patents

         Ò        - Chlorinated (depositon exhibit – 1985)

         Ò        - coatings

Solvents – neurotoxicology

         Ò        - petroleum and alkanes – 1977

         Ò        - toxicol.  Ethel Browning, MD (benzene) 1937

         Ò        -        Ò

Soto, Ana, MD – corresp. 1994

Sparine (promazine)  trial exhibits   1965-69

Sperm loss

South Carolina Environ. Health Conf. – speaker 2001

Stem cdells 2000

Steel workers

Sterling, Theodore, PhD – Simon Frazer Univ. – corresp.         regarding workersÕ

compensation cases, and trying to get funding from NIOSH 1975-77

Steroids & bone necrosis

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome search 1974-80

Stress – 1951-79

 

#151

Stress  - 1980s

Stroke 1963-

Structure-Activity: carcinogens and teratogens

Styrene       - 1942-79

         Ò        - 1980s

Styrene – Butadiene -1970s

         Ò        - manufacturing

         Ò        - Monsanto data

         Ò        - Neurotoxicity

         Ò        - CDC /NIOSH  - 1983

         Ò        - Patents – Monsanto

         Ò        - Monsanto data 1960-70s

         Ò        - Biblio. by JD Sherman

         Ò        - searches 1970s and 80s

Succinic anhydride – IARC info. 1977

Sulfur dioxide

Sulfuric acid

Superfund 

Sufactants

Surveillance – Medical/ Occupationals

         Ò                 - legal costs

Swimming pool chemicals

Talc

Tamoxifen – 1960s

         Ò        - 1970s

         Ò        - 1980-83

         Ò        - 1984-89

         Ò        - 1990-93

         Ò        - correspondence re: my paper –1994

         Ò        - 1994

         Ò        - 1995

         Ò        - 1996

 

#152

Tamoxifen; Prevention Trials – National WomenÕs Health

                  Network revew     - 1995

Tamoxifen – 1997

         Ò        - Abstract – First World Conf. On Breast Cancer

                           Kingston, Ont. July 1997

         Ò        - paper published Toxicol. & Indust. Hlth. 1998

         Ò        - searches pre- 1980

         Ò        -        Ò        - 1980-1993

         Ò        - criticisms of study 1998

TACE (chlorotrianisene)

Tardive Dyskinesia – due to drug side effects

Taylor, Paul (L. A. Times reporter– meetings with him and articles

                  1979- 1980

T-cells

Teratogens – 1950s – 1960s

         Ò                 - 1970s

         Ò        & PCBs  Western Mich. Univ. research

         Ò                 1980s

         Ò        & Brain tumors

         Ò        & chemicals (styrene, benzene, plastics)

         Ò                 -1985-89

         Ò                 - 1989

         Ò                 - 1990

         Ò                 - Alsea, Oregon study – 1979

         Ò                 - caudal defects

         Ò                 - heart defects

         Ò                 - corresp.  1979-81

         Ò                 - malignant transfer

         Ò                 - neuro-

         Ò                 - 1997

         Ò                 - Bendectin 1979- 81

         Ò                 - worrkplace hazards

         Ò                 - Catalog of Agents – Thomas H. Shepard, MD, 1979

         Ò                 - misc. & general

Testicular toxics

Testing – Medical  (background for Brio, TX dump site)

Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene)

Tetrachloroethane

Textile workers – 1970s

Thalidomide

Thermography – breast diagnosis

Threshold Limit Values 1980s

         Ò        Ò                Ò        ACGIH 1980s

 

#153

Thymus – 1960s

Tin – organic compounds

Tri-metalic anhydride (TMA) plasticider curing agent 1978

Tolmetrin – reaction

Toluene Diisocyanate (2 folders)

Tolbutamide 1970s

Toluene 1943- 1980s

Toxic chemical exports from the US

Toxic shock & tampon chemcal make-up

Toxic substances – Calif. Directory & Resources –1986

Toxic Substances Control Act. 1976

         I served on the advisory committee.

Trnsplantation – organs (1960s early literature reviews)

Trial Magazine –article on Women and the Law 1983

1,1,1 Trichloroethane – Vulcan Materials Co.  -no date

                  Ò                          - 1937 – 1960s

                  Ò                          - 1980s

                  Ò                          - Vulcan – MSDS

                  Ò                          - 1976 – NIOSH document

                  Ò                          - multiple searches

                  Ò                          - articles  1945- 85

                  Ò                          -        Ò        1990s

Trichloroethyulene – Beliles (EPA) and Davidson – 1991

                  Ò        - notes  1953- 60

Trichlorophenol –1990

ÒTri-FlyÓ erradication in Hawaii – critique by JDS 1984

TRIS – flame retardant

TSCA (Toxic Substances Contro Act) – 1970s

         I served on the committee.

Tuberculosis – reference list from 1920 – 1937

Tvedten, Steven & Rosalind – Non-toxic pest control

UAW – Local 600 health problems.  1984

Union Carbide Co. – carcinogenic oil  - 1976

Univ. of TX (Galveston) – Recognizing, Diagnosing & Treating  Chronic Toxic

Chemical Effects. – Participant 1981

 

#154

Urethane

Vaccinations – Small pox, Polio and Central Nervous System

complications – JDS bibliographies – Deposiiton exhibit   1985.

Vaitkevicius, V. (Chief of Oncology – Wayne Stat Univ.)

         Chemotherapy trial results.

Valproid acid (Depakene) – antiepileptic 1978 –80

Vibration work injuries

Vietnam and Agent Orange contacts – 1979- 1980

Viral transformation caused by various chemicals - 1981

Vision – toxicology

Volatilization of chemicals from drinking water – 1986

Waste Management Corp.-  CA Atty. Gen. Report – 1992

Waste problems 1979-90

Water treatment (2 files)

    Ò    contamination

   Ò     pesticide containaiton –1987

   Ò     drinking – 1983

Water- drinking Calif. Standards  (2 folders)

   Ò     - EPA Safe Drinking Watr Act. – 1986

   Ò     - New Jersey – water contaminaiton & leukemia – 1987

   Ò     - Hawaii – chemical contamination problems

   Ò     - Maui, HI       Ò             Ò                 Ò

Welding and cancr

   Ò     Amer. National Standard  - 1984

   Ò     - 1978-80

   Ò     - Chrysler Corp.

 

#155

Welding-  patents   1934- 1975

Whitehall, MI (White Lake chemical contaminaiton)  -1989-90

Wildlife – chemical contaminaotion and deformities

Windsor, Ontario Canada  & Detroit  - pollution affecting children  1977

Wingspread Foundation  (WI) Conference 1992 (participant) (2 folders)

WISCOSH (Wisc.) Meeting  - 1997

Women workers

Wood treating chemicals

     Ò        Ò            Ò        - and cancer

     Ò        Ò            Ò        - Military specifictions

World Resources Institute Conf. – Workshop on Environmental Health, and

Indicators of Reproductive Risk – Wash, DC – 1997

World Federation of Neurology meeting – my abstract: Chlordane/ heptachlor

         Neurotoxicity.  NY City. Apr. 1993

World Federation of Neurology meeting – my abstract:  Dursban (chlorpyrifos)

         Caused Neurotoxicity – No respector of Age.

         San Francisco, March 1996

Wyeth – Corp. Annual Report – manufacturer of Premarin, 2002

Zeneca Corp.

Zinc toxicology and use in treatment

Zinc ethylhexanoate

Zinc dusts and powders

Zirconium

 

Also on file are some 5000+ WorkersÕ Compensation files.    Each file contains the legal petition, a complete work and medical history, complete physical examination, pulmonary function test, EKG, chest x-ray report and a typed report. 

They cover the years 1970 to current.

These files are available to those interested in research in occupational medicine, labor history and changing industrial practices.