Samsung Electronics today said they will launch independent reviews in response to reports that toxic materials used in chip making may have caused cancer in some of its employees. On Thursday, the company said twenty of them employees who worked at them chip plants had been diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma, and between 1998 and 2010, ten of them died of cancer.
The investigation concluded there were no problems at Samsung plants. Samsung has been under pressure by some social and civic groups to take responsibility for the incidents, which were reported until late 2000s and for which a government investigation was conducted in 2007 and 2008. Samsung said chemicals used during the chip making process at its plants had not caused the cancers.
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