Flexsys staff at 'higher risk' of cancer
| 10:58 UK time, Tuesday, 20 January 2009
BBC News Wales
A chemical used to manufacture rubber may cause cancer in workers regularly exposed to it, according to a study of workers. Researchers found that staff at the Flexsys plant who had come into contact with MBT were twice as likely to die of large intestine and bladder cancers.
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My father worked for Monsanto - Flexys. He worked for a number of years in the rubber plant and died from cancer of the bladder. That was quite a few years ago. it is sad to see that nothing has changed in such a long time.
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