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Cancer: Semiconductor work linked to cancer

The HSE has said that the results of its study into cancers among workers at a semiconductor plant at Greenock in Scotland "reinforce the concerns that prompted the investigation and raise the possibility of a work-related cause for some of these cancers".

The HSE announced in December 1999 that it would investigate the possibility that exposure of pregnant workers using chemicals at the National Semiconductor UK plant might cause cancer.