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Title: Testimony presented to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, March 19, 1984, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6903426

The testimony relates the witness' experience as Director of the Carcinogenesis Bioassay Program at the National Cancer Institute relating to experiments performed with ethylene dibromide (EDB). NCI conducted carcinogenicity bioassays of EDB in rats and mice by both the oral and inhalation routes of exposure. EDB produced multiple kinds of cancer at multiple body sites, in three strains of rats and two strains of mice, in both sexes, at high incidences, with short latent periods, and by three routes of exposure (oral, inhalation, and skin application). (ACR)

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
6903426
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/21400-T11; ON: DE84011652
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English