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117 Table B Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH In the U.S., PVC pipe is not stabilized with barium or cadmium heat stabilizers. Tin stabilizers...
117 Table B Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH In the U.S., PVC siding is generally stabilized with tin compounds, not barium or cadmium.
118 Table B Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH In the U.S., rigid PVC window profiles are generally stabilized with tin compounds, not barium or...
118 Table B Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH In the U.S., vinyl flooring is generally stabilized with barium and zinc, and sometimes calcium, ...
119 8 Richard Johnson Tin Stabilizers Association (TSA) Reference to Boraiko, et. al., is cited. Boraiko, Batt, and Johnson, attached, is another publis...
13 15-21 Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH First, our congratulations on a job well done. Your approach made the task of performing life cy...
14 2-3 Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH The draft report contains good summaries of the data that you reviewed, and these conclusions all...
14 15 23-27 1-5 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The objectives and scope are somewhat limited, omitting past manufacturing practices, foreign ma...
15 18-24 Chris Balbach Thomas Associates It is inconsistent for the USGBC to take a position regarding the avoidance of PVC in building pr...
15 31-38 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects See comment above for occupational health costs of wood products.
15 14 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "VCM is now highly controlled in the United States" The evidence in the air monitoring ...
15 20 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Foreign manufacturers were not researched for this report" But this report claims to m...
15 26 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "It was not feasible to study both the PVC-based materials and competing materials for all o...
15 & 11 13 & 2 Michelle Halle Stern Delta Institute The methodology for this study is more complex than needed to answer the charge of advising the L...
16 10 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center “The most important type of morbidity is cancer, as it more likely results in the individual’s de...
16 19-20 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA Please elaborate on how exposures to carcinogens are being minimized or controlled. Is there an ...
16 David Yopak Teknor Apex Company The USGBC did a very comprehensive and thorough review as the task group considered more than 2,5...
16 1-28 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects See comment above for occupational health costs of wood products.
16 1 Tracey Easthope Ecology Center The report states: "The most important type of morbidity is cancer, as it more likely result...
16 21 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "It is difficult to make comparisons between the building materials in terms of the types of...
19 38 Jack Geibig Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
University of Tennessee		 Determinations of characterization factors for chemicals with no listed factors were performed by...
19 11 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network The database is a big disappointment. One year ago, the work group promised an annotated database...
19+ Eric Ridenour The linkage of LCA and Risk Assessment is innovative and may have long term merit, but ought to b...
19-42 Steve Scaccia Freedom Plastics Inc. We support the methodology used by the Task Group to review vinyl compared with alternatives. Li...
20 17 Joshua Richardson Anshen+Allen Great work! Couple questions: My PubMed search on "Polyvinyl Chloride"[MeSH] AND "...
21 21 Joshua Richardson Anshen+Allen OCLC isn't a good source to locate articles. Its FirstSearch service, though, does provide r...
22 25 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Articles not kept include … leakage of organotin stabilizers from the plastic matrix of wat...
22-37 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The Life Cycle Assessment does not address risks to firefighters, building occupants and neighbo...
23 1-40 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Switched to intake approach for “absolute risk” as opposed to “relative risk” as would be obtaine...
23 32 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Intake fraction: It distributes the intake over the entire population, which dilutes it into ins...
23 14+ Eric Ridenour The weighting of factors should be made more transparent. It appears from the outcome of the st...
23 26 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "SimaPro used … checked and enhanced with BEES" In previous submissions to the Task Gro...
24 6-18 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center TRACI does not provide estimates of absolute risk in any meaningful way. It is used for comparing...
24 19 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Continues to treat mortality as the endpoint for cancer. It is completely unclear how the analysi...
24 25 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Switching from TRACI approach to non-cancer impacts to an intake fraction based approach spreads ...
24 36 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Using intake fractions (Bennett) for an average person in the US population is irrelevant to this...
24 35 Richard Becker American Chemistry Council The Cal-Tox model, which was used to derive population exposures, has been in use for more than 1...
24 6 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "absolute cancer risk has been estimated" Comment: How can you estimate cancer risk whe...
24 13 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Disability adjusted life years only capture a portion of the health impacts of hazardous chemical...
24 13 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Should read "reference dose through daily oral exposure"