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ATTACHMENT #3 ~- Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc UNIROYAL World Headquarters Middlebury, CT 06749 J'ant:ay.,-y 13, 1989 Ntr . A3vid Gelber 60 Minutes CBS-W 524 Wst 57th Street Neia York, Nesv York 10019 Lear David: re: nmninoziA--/U=i thu•royal C7isnical has stvd.ied e.rtensively the safety of daminozide for more than .20 years. In 20 years of production and use, there is no evidence of adverse health effects among employees, applicators or anyone else exposed to daninozide. The tests originally cited as suggesting a aonnection bet,&--n damztnozi.de and health concerns were evaluated by the EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel in 1985 as too unreliable for regulatory de:~sion-:naking purposes. New carcinogenicity studi.es on daminozide, carried out by an in3e=p-*iderzt 1a:ooratory under aroroved EPA test procedures, were caTpletec3 in 1988. The indeperde.nt pathologists concluded that daninozide is not carcinoceziic in rats or mice. Five separate stud.ies deternirned that daniriozide is rot mtagenic. Since reliable studies on UL~_: are not available, Llniroyal Chenical initiat.ed, and is concluding, several lifetime carcinogeni.city studies on UUOi, again under approved EFA test procedtzes. Final results will not be available until late this year, in the mean-Lime, four other sta3i.es have proven tTD~Z is not =,*.agenic. Dxtu.noz:..de is an irportant ra:.agwent tool for growers which allows th an to ; supply high g,+,a li ty, wholesane and nutritious products year raLmd. Dmninozide has be=re an irportant part of integrated pest marsagacent (IPM) program assUss the oountry, reducing the ovesal.l need for pesticide use. Lyosoyal Chenicai recognizes that the use of any product may pose sane risk, however minute, and the public should evaluate relative risk. Attached is a =iparison of the alleged %,orst case" risk fsam lifetime e:qposur>fl to daminozide and ULio to carmon products corLSlane3 by the pLi'b1ic. :Mie conclusion is obvious; any risk fraa daninozide or ULMd, if it e)cists, is negligible.