Press Release
For Immediate Release
June 17, 2005

Dr. Bill Lambert to answer questions regarding the View-Master/Mattel  Health Study at the June 23 Citizen’s Advisory Group (CAG) Meeting.

Dr. Bill Lambert is one of the scientists chosen by the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) to review progress, policy and methodologies regarding the View-Master/Mattel Health Study. A study which is anticipated to reveal to what extent the former View-Master/GAF/Tyco/Mattel workers have suffered cancer and non-cancer health effects due to their exposure to high amounts of TCE in the water they drank while they worked at the Beaverton plant location from the early 1960’s until the plant’s closure in 1998.

This Beaverton plant facility on Hall Blvd. in Beaverton, Oregon is currently being demolished

In a Feasibility Study, ODHS released in January of
2005; it was found that male workers are suffering 8 times the
incidence of biliary and liver cancers, female workers are experiencing 6 times the kidney cancer and 4 times the pancreatic cancer as experienced overall compared to the general population of Oregon.

By allowing the CAG access to Dr. Lambert, ODHS is
complying with stipulations Victims of TCE Exposure (VOTE) and the Mattel Citizen’s Advisory Group (CAG) made last winter in order to maintain the support of the former workers and their families. This stipulation, among others, requested that ODHS provides access to members of the ODHS peer review panel bi-annually.  By having access to the panel, the
CAG can feel more connected to the process and gain
better understanding of the study’s progress as well as have questions answered about their TCE exposure. It is also a time
for the peer review panel to connect with the workers and families and better understand their concerns regarding their exposure to TCE.

A biography of Dr. Lambert can be found at the following link: http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/faculty/lambert/


Public and press are invited to this meeting to be held:

Thursday June 23, 2005 at the Beaverton Resource
Center 6:00-8:00pm in the Large Community Room.

The Beaverton Resource Center is located at:
12500 SW Allen Blvd. (Cross-street is Hall Blvd.), Beaverton, Oregon.

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