Monsanto, PCBs, and the creation of a “world-wide ecological problem”
Monsanto, PCBs, and the creation of a “world-wide ecological problem”
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孟山都、多氯联苯以及“全球生态问题”的产生
DOI：
10.1057/s41271-018-0146-8
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Rosner, David
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作者：
Markowitz, Gerald;Rosner, David
在过去的三十年里，我们撰写了关于职业和环境健康的历史，撰写了关于铅中毒、矽肺、石棉肺和肝脏血管肉瘤等疾病的书籍和文章。其中一本书《欺骗与否认》专门关注化学和铅工业。由于研究这段历史的历史学家很少，我们被要求代表声称受到这些工业材料危害的工人作证，也被州、县和地方政府要求为环境损害寻求赔偿和资金，以防止未来对儿童的伤害。大约在2010年，我们开始在一些人提起的诉讼中作证，这些人声称他们患有癌症，特别是非霍奇金淋巴瘤，因为他们体内含有多氯联苯（pcb）。当时，我们向法院写了一份关于多氯联苯对工人和环境危害的行业知识的报告。最近，代表美国西海岸政府机构的律师与我们取得了联系，他们正在寻求资金，以减少其港口、海湾和水道中的多氯联苯污染。这些诉讼的焦点是孟山都公司，从20世纪30年代到1977年，它是美国唯一的多氯联苯生产商。通过这些诉讼，我们获得了大量孟山都公司以前的私人报告、文件、备忘录、信件和研究，而这篇论文是我们对这数十万页文件进行审查的结果。这些文件（除了孟山都没有公开的特权材料，我们也没有依赖这些材料）可以在www.ToxicDocs.org上找到，这是我们与哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院的Merlin Chowkwanyun教授共同开发的网站。（读者可以通过点击参考超链接来访问这个集合中的几乎所有参考文献。）本专著改编自一份提交给法院的报告，该报告最初是为代表原告在PCB诉讼中提起诉讼而制作的。我们非常感谢《公共卫生政策杂志》发表了对这些文件的详细审查，我们希望它能促进对这一重要的、现已公开的行业记录档案的进一步研究。
For the past three decades, we have written on the history of occupational and environmental health, authoring books and articles on lead poisoning, silicosis, asbestosis, and angiosarcoma of the liver, among other diseases. One book,Deceit and Denial, focused specifically on the chemical and lead industries. Because of the rarity of historians who study this history, we have been asked to testify on behalf of workers who allege harm from these industrial materials and by state, county, and local governments who seek redress for environmental damages and funds to prevent future harm to children. In about 2010, we began testifying in law suits brought by individuals who claimed that they had suffered from cancers, specifically non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, because of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in their bodies. At that time, we wrote a Report to the Court about industry knowledge of the dangers of PCBs to workers and the environment. More recently, we have been approached by attorneys representing government agencies on the West Coast of the United States which are seeking funds to abate PCB pollution in their ports, bays, and waterways. The focus of these lawsuits is the Monsanto Corporation, the sole producer of PCBs in the United States from the 1930s through 1977. Through these law suits, an enormous trove of previously private Monsanto reports, papers, memos, letters, and studies have been made available to us and this paper is the result of our examination of these hundreds of thousands of pages. The documents from this collection (with the exception of privileged materials that Monsanto has not made public, and upon which we have not relied) are available on www.ToxicDocs.org , the website we have developed with Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun of Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. (Almost all of the references that are from this collection can be accessed by readers by clicking on the reference hyperlink.) This monograph is adapted from a report to the court that was originally produced for litigation on behalf of plaintiffs in PCB lawsuits. We are grateful to theJournal of Public Health Policyfor publishing this detailed examination of these documents and we hope it will stimulate further research into this important, and now public, archive of industry records.
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