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John Froines, chemist and member of the Chicago Seven, dies at 83

Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: John Froines: Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Director, UCLA Fogarty Program in Occupational and Environmental Health; Director, Sustainable Technology and Policy Program

Synopsys: JohnFroines, UCLA Professor and member of the Chicago Seven, who led the fight for regulating cancerous air toxics, dies at 83.

UCLA News: As a UCLA professor, Froines conducted a study to determine which Southern California jobs and industries had the highest exposure to 500 different chemicals. And as head of the UCLA’s Occupational Health Center, he oversaw a study to determine how some industrial chemicals cause early aging of the brain and how others help trigger the first stages of cancer.

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