Day 010 - 11 Jul 94 - Page 32
1
Q. Do you know which publication it is from?
2 A. My reading of this document is that it is a document
that he produced following a debate that he had at a
3 university, the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where
he had a debate with -- well, I am not sure if it says
4 that, but in any case he debated about the benefits of
polystyrene foam packaging, and what he did in the
5 document is do a literature review -- by "literature
review" I mean he reviewed the scientific literature
6 related to -----
7 Q. On this subject?
A. Related to the migration of various types of materials
8 from plastic packages into food contained by these
packages. He was specifically interested in those studies
9 which focused on styrene migration. I refer to the
references on page 13 of that item.
10
Q. Ten pages of references or something, nine pages of
11 reference?
A. I would say four really, but these documents are
12 referred to within the paper -- I have a couple of quotes
that I call your attention to.
13
Q. Which pages would they be on?
14 A. We will start with page 3 where Mr. Baggett makes
reference to ----
15
Q. Which paragraph?
16 A. Well, these issues, I suppose, go to -- at least in
the second paragraph -- are related more generally to
17 storage as opposed to migration. The last sentence in the
second paragraph says: "One of the only problems with
18 storing large quantities of polystyrene in a closed
building is emissions from residuals of styrene monomer".
19 He makes reference to item 10 in the reference list; item
10 being Polystyrene Safety Data Sheet, Canadian Centre
20 for Occupational Health & Safety.
21 Q. Shall we come to the bit about food migration on this
sheet?
22 A. OK. On page 4 under the heading: "What about
Migration of Monomer into Food Products"? By monomer,
23 Mr. Baggett is referring to the styrene monomer which is
the precursor to polystyrene, in which he states:
24 "Migration of monomers" -- this is the second paragraph
-- "into food and cosmetics came to a head in the late
25 1960's and early 1970's with the discovery that vinyl
chloride monomer is a carcinogen. It continued in the
26 1970's with the suspicion that acrylonitrile used in
beverage containers was a carcinogen, which resulted in a
27 1975 ruling restricting use of these monomers. The
earliest work on styrene migration I found was done in
28 1972. Therefore the topic is not new. A preliminary
search of the literature suggests that the topic of
29 migration of styrene monomer was addressed in a 1976
symposium on health hazards in the plastics industry. In
30 the last couple of years since the results of the adipose
tissue survey were released to the public there has been
