La Salle Electrical Utilities Company Cohort Mortality Study, La Salle, Illinois.

摘要

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), in conjunction with the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, conducted a multi-year Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) exposure/health study of former workers of the La Salle Electrical Utilities Company (EUC) Superfund site in La Salle, Illinois. This study was conducted with funding from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Workers at this plant were exposed to PCBs, chlorinated naphthalenes, and trichloroethylene. The two-part study consisted of a retrospective cohort mortality study of the entire EUC cohort and a cross-sectional biomarker study of 191 former employees and 26 community controls. The mortality study is the subject of this report.