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2 Presentation by Dr. Marc Boeckx, Tessenderlo Group, the 30th Congress on Occupational and Environmental Health in the Chemical Industry (Medichem 2002), Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 26-28, 2002.

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6 Staff Recommendation in Response to Petition HP 99-1 Requesting Ban of Use of PVC in Products Intended for Children Five Years of Age and Under, CPSC Directorate for Health Sciences, August 2002.

7 Letter from T. Stevenson, Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, to J. Wise, National Environmental Trust, re: Petition Requesting Ban of Use of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) in Products Intended for Children Five Years of Age and Under, Feb. 26, 2003.

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10 W.A. Burgess, R.D. Treitman and A. Gold, "Air Contaminants in Structural Firefighting," N.F.P.C.A. Project 7X008, Harvard School of Public Health, 1979.

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19 "Environmental Aspects of the Use of PVC in Building Products, Second Edition," a study carried out for the Plastics and Chemicals Industries Association, Inc., CSIRO Molecular Science, June 1998.

20 "Disposal of PVC Waste – Report on a Government Assignment," Report 4594, Naturvardsverket, and "Additives in PVC; Marking of PVC – Report on Completion of a Government Task," Kemikalieinspektionen, June 1996.