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Vinyl Chloride Experience of Stephen Levin, MD in 1974

This is a short clip from the video of the December 2, 2009 honoring of Stephen M. Levin, MD with the international Collegium Ramazzini’s prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in New York. After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymerization into polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic used in construction, packaging, electrical, and transportation industries; in household products such as flooring, water piping, videodiscs, and credit cards; and in medical products such as disposable intravenous bags, tubing, and bedpans. In 1974-1975, the disclosure that vinyl chloride exposure had caused rare liver cancers in worker led the recently created U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an emergency standard to ptotect workers. VC and PVC production plants had to reduce workplace exposure levels from 500 ppm to 1 ppm, to provide protect workers' health. When OSHA issued the new exposure limit of 1 ppm, industry spokespeople issued dire predictions of job loss and plant closures. However, in less than two years virtually all U.S. manufacturing plants were able to meet the new standard while still maintaining rapid growth of sales volume. This was accomplished largely through better containment of unpolymerized VC monomer and improved exposure monitoring. For more information, go to the 2005 article in the Journal Environmental Health Perspectives at http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005... and read the book, Deceit and Denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution by Markowitz and Rosner, from the University of California Press, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/98... . This entire video , Stephen Levin, MD, honored with the Collegium Ramazzini's Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in 2009.(57 minutes) can be viewed at    • Stephen Levin, MD, honored with the Colleg...   : “This prestigious award is given periodically to a scientist or humanist whose studies and achievements have contributed to the protection of workers’ health and the environment,” explained Dr. Philip Landrigan in presenting the award, which has been conferred only five times in the academy’s 27-year history. Dr. Levin (1941 - 2012) was an internationally known expert in occupational medicine and asbestos related disease and Dr. Levin is the longtime medical director of the Mount Sinai- Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine and prior director of the World Trade Center medical monitoring and treatment programs. He was Professor of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated in 1967 from the New York University School of Medicine. After a decade of practice in General Medicine in Pennsylvania, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine. Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011. He was Co-Director of the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided medical assessments, diagnostic referrals and occupational health education for over 20,000 workers and volunteers who performed rescue and recovery work at the WTC site. He served as Principal Investigator and Director of the Data and Coordination Center for the federally funded WTC Medical Monitoring Program that provides repeat examinations for the WTC responder cohort. Dr. Levin also served on the Science Advisory Board for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). ADAO created a short memorial video tribute to Dr. Levin which can be seen at    • ADAO Memorial Dedication to Dr. Stephen Levin   . For more information about the Collegium Ramazzini, visit their website at http://www.collegiumramazzini.org/ind.... To learn more about the good work of the Mt Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health, go to their website at http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-car... . To learn more about careers and training in occupational medicine, visit the websites of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) at http://www.aoec.org/index.htm and the Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) at http://aoec.org/ohip/. AOEC is a network of more than 60 clinics and more than 250 individuals committed to improving the practice of occupational and environmental medicine through information sharing and collaborative research. OHIP helps to train a new generation of occupational health professionals through paid internships. Thanks to Dr. Levin's wife, Robin Dintiman, for providing this video and allowing it to be posted.