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This environmental cause is intriguing. My exposure was 3 years at a Chemical Processing Plant in Southern Illinois. Agricultural chemcials were produced here, often times unsuccesfully. On such days (when a batch would go up the stacks) the air was so full of airborne contaminants that women's nylons used to run in walk from the car to office. (They would reimburse the gals a buck each occurence!.) Needless to say, our cars all became pitted in a few months, and the more conservative or better situated financially, had a "plant car" to drive to work each day. If contamianats on a regular basis did this to nylons and surface of cars, what did they do to our bodies? My particular interest: All major chemical companies started keeping very complete medical records around the time of the mid to late 70's. They did this primarily for defensive reasons, although some of it may have been required by EPA. (EG--My Company--a St Louis Based Giant--had as many as 10 or more employees devoted simply to maintaining such a computer based data bank! Don't know whether or not they added retiree health data or any data from medical insurance programs). Q. Through EPA, might some of this data be available under the Freedom of Information ACT? Have any Researchers ever gone into this data? Can anyone out there (especially former employees) corroborate such data banks and usage of such by other major Chemical Mfrs? I don't mean to re-open the whole broad subject of environmental exposure again. My only interest is in learning more about these data banks, and perhaps hearing from others who WORKED FOR AND IN Chemical Processing Firms and Environments or who know someething about what our former employers did and may still be doing. Dick Naples, FL