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DATE: FRIDAY, March 23, 1990                   TAG: 9003232042
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

EPA SAYS DIOXIN STUDY FRAUDULENT

Chemists at Monsanto Chemical Co. fraudulently manipulated a key study that has helped convince other scientists that toxic chemicals known as dioxins do not cause high rates of cancer in humans, according to an internal Environmental Protection Agency memorandum.

Because of evidence in an Illinois state court case that Monsanto altered the results of a study of cancer among workers exposed to dioxins, EPA should re-examine its own position regarding the chemicals, an agency chemist said.

"This study by Monsanto apparently has now been shown to be a fraud," said Dr. Cate Jenkins, the EPA chemist.

A spokesman for Monsanto said Thursday he was aware of the EPA memo and the assertion that his company's 1979 study of cancer among workers exposed to dioxin had been manipulated.

"That is totally, outrageously false beyond belief," said Dan Bishop, Monsanto director of corporate communications. He said evidence in the court case was being misrepresented to impugn the Monsanto study.

- Cox News Service 


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