PEDIATRICS Vol. 88 No. 3 September 1991, pp. A44
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WOMAN TO COLLECT $3.75 MILLION IN DIAPER DETERGENT ACCORD

J. F. L. MD

ST. LOUIS (July 3 (AP)—A West German chemical company has agreed to pay $3.75 million to a woman who said her leukemia was caused by a detergent used to launder her diapers when she was a baby.

The woman, Fawna Wright, 23 years old, of Mound City, Ill., reached the settlement with the BASF Wyandotte Corporation on Monday. Her lawyers maintained that chemicals in the detergent Loxene might have harmed thousands of infants before it was pulled from the market in the 1960's...

Ms. Wright brought suit in 1985, charging that her illness was caused by chemicals in Loxene that included pentachlorophenol, a substance more widely used as a pesticide and wood preservative...