Also see Senator Kit Bond’s testimony submitted to the President’s Advisory Board. — URL internet location:
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EXCERPTS: “I believe it is long past time to compensate these former
workers for the heroic sacrifices they made in helping America win the Cold War,” said Bond. . . “I have met with many of these former workers and heard about their sufferings first-hand. They are victims of what appears to be an endless bureaucratic process,” said Bond in a statement submitted to the board and read today at a public meeting. . . “This will give these former workers the compensation they need to pay their medical bills and to provide for their survivors. . .” “There are too many complicating circumstances and too much unknown information regarding these former workers that make it impossible for NIOSH to proceed with dose reconstructions for the Mallinckrodt claimants with any degree of accuracy and credibility,” Bond said. — RE: Intervention by US Senator Kit Bond on behalf of his Mallinckrodt Chemical Company victims. Advisory Board verbatim meeting minutes. URL internet location: During the 32nd Advisory Board meeting August 25, 2005, (EXHIBIT 38) the members approved the Mallinckrodt Chemical workers “SEC” status by a margin of 6-4. Primarily the reason for the “SEC” approval was because NIOSH could not deliver on its preferred method to calculate internal doses. A board member said, he “dug in the weeds" and found serious errors in the CER database between the raw data sheets and the electronic records. This recommendation will now go to the Director of NIOSH who must decide between recommending the Board's recommendation versus supporting NIOSH's team under Larry Elliott which says it can do accurate and timely dose reconstructions on this cohort. NIOSH makes it's recommendation to Congress, who gives final approval. If approved, the entire MCW-Destrehan Street 1942-57 group of workers will have SEC status.
