CHEMICAL CENTER IS SUSPECT IN A RASH OF BRAIN TUMORS.(Business)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: August 28, 1996 | Copyright information

Amoco Corp. shut down one floor of its chemical research center because 10 employees in the building have been stricken with brain tumors since 1982.

Over a decade, the rate of brain tumors at the suburban Chicago center, which employed 2,000 people in 1990 and is now down to about ...

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