Industry doing own benzene study
The Petroleum industry has apparently decided that they do not like the results of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Health studies that found that benzene is related to cancer. So what do you do??
Go make your own study so you can stand up in court and try to say with a straight face that you don't think benzene is related to leukemias and blood cancers.
Here's why they did it...
The $27 million study undertaken by the American Petroleum Institute aims to give the industry leverage against any consequences of a study by the National Cancer Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, that suggests occupational exposure to benzene is more dangerous than previously believed.
If you doubt that they are doing this study to protect against lawsuits... then read this.
The industry fears the possibility of tighter regulations or lawsuits from cancer patients, according to documents found in boxes of evidence in an unrelated lawsuit.
Source: Yahoo News
