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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1976 Mar 8 DOC TALC092 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - Asbestos Fibers Found in Powders Powder resachrs Rosemary Invisble amounts Face Tale Talc the on cent fi- found asbes- cent Faberge Label Menen English Talc 1 Col. Airspun Baby perasbetos longer 15 of per 5 in Black and Shave A7 of Black a POWDER Cotyand & no had foundYardleyYardley PowderTale After Powder conetraion fibers TalcPowder Bauerwihisch market tbheresSmaler tos we-re TBarultcTale-- --Sh--ave Leather See Baby Baby BabyBaby physical samples fibers Baby Medicne powders partment contaiedquanties conetraion Cashmer Found Langer sciencs asbetos ranging powdersgreatsranging PowderBouqet tested Arthur section cent fibers Baby 8 Body sam- and M. dc- in 2 the oafs- from ZBT oil baby one body the from with were of the nine 19 with of of said powders cent head per per each bestos 20 The 20 bestos Baby tal ple baby to bestos to Found Enviromen- asbetos Found asbetos Selikof diseaseleading a a dis- per New 40 of expert know for enter stay Sinai's these of level they fibers Mt. that nearly deaths Jersey J. ndoot like said at of a he ocupationl thresold asbetos causedthe reported of Irving Sinai We body Fibers carinoge Resarches Departmen York workes nai eases cent Dr. Mt. on saidsafe Once the there prod-are and re- Hos- me- of of Wil- Si- by buildng studied scaring Buros discov- cancer whichSWrtiatefr of to ben b1o9dybby y Sinai cause froarrme 1D9r7.2 Motf. thousand abdominal fibersPost of food have Mt. York can a In Marian Nicholsn nine at New asbetosi powders tisue By infrom in in and J. Asbestos Washingto baby insulation searches sothelioma Asbetos found Asbetos ucts ered pital baby baby baby baby chest and lung liam Asbestos Asbestos Asbestos Asbestos Asbestos Fibers Fibers Fibers Fibers Found in Powders POWDER Fom A1 , Officials of Colgate Palm- olive which makes Cash- mere Bouquet Sterling Drugs Inc. manufacturer of ZBT Baby Powder and of Coty said they are certain their products are safe They said no asbestos had been found in their testing The manufacturer of Rose- mary Talc could not be reached for comment tent of the powder the researchers purchased seven more samples Five of them had 1,800 ppm or more of nickel two had fewer than 710 ppm Langer said researchers don't know if the nickel is hazardous at high levels Dr. F. William Sunderman Jr. head of the de- partment of laboratory medicine at the University of Connecticut and an expert The other powders studied were Aminen's Medicated Powder Avon Bird of Para- dise Beauty Dust Diaperene Medicated Body Powder Johnson's one made Baby Powders in England and one in the United States on nickel said We're trying to find out which nickel compounds do cause cancer and which don't Certain nickel compounds cinogenic when others are not are car- inhaled Johnson & Johnson's as- Johnson's Medicated Pow- der Mennen Bath Tale Yardley After Shave Powder and Yardley Original Body Powder None of them contained asbestos One sociate director for public affairs Robert Kniffin said the nickel in the tale is harmless because it is biologically inert and won't react with body tissues Diaperene talc It is starch contained no made of corn- A study revealed last September by Dr. J. C. Wagner of the Pneumoconiosis Re- The Food and Drug Administration said in 1972 it would propose regulations to govern the use of asbescontaminated talc in cosmetics The director of FDA's division of cosmetics technology Heinz J. Eirmann said recently the agency had not issued regulations because it had not found a fast method for search Unit at Penarth Wales raised the question about the safety of talc itself the major ingredient in powders Wagner found that asbestos talc caused fibrosis lung scarring in the test animals at the same rate as asbestos Epidemiological tale studies have shown that tale workers develo talcosis anoth- determining the presence of asbestos at low levels The sophisticated method used at Mt. Sinai electron microscopy he said was too time consuming and expen- sive The Mt. Sinai researchers who have conducted the er form of lung scarring | from exposure to large amounts of the mineral According to Selikoff the amount of tale that must be inhaled to cause tissue scar ring or cancer in humans is not known study under a grant from the National Institute of En- IT vironmental Health Serv- ices since 1973 also inves tigated the powders for the presence of other metallic elements including nickel With the exception of Rosemary Tale and Diapeene which contained no nickel 16 of the powders contained from 4 to 710 parts per million ppm of nickel A sample of Johnson's Baby Powder Con tained 2,200 ppm Surprised at what they regarded as a high mckel con-