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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1976c DOC TALC477 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Draft of Letter - RE New ItemAsbestos in the Boudoir Mr. Strauch Stauch Chemical Distributors Inc. Chuch Tom Remmers has handed me your letter of July 26 and the news item entitled Asbestos in the Boudoir We have had similar inquiries to yours from other sources We understand that the Toilet Goods Association is now investigating * scare reports as are we and as Johnson and Johnson surely are these As soon as these investigations are completed we shall issue a bulletin to all . distributors which will supply the necessary information for you and your customers TREMOLITE - It is true that and ANTHOPHYLLITE belong to the Asbestos group of minerals does in tal We have never heard of any anthophyllite in talc Tremolite occur in. varying percentages The New York state talcs contain more tremolite than talc specific Tremolite is not the most ccomonommon commercial form of is CHRYSOTILE shortly You will be haring from us with more details specific specific to ourtalcs In the me ntime you canassureyour customersthat there is nocommercialasbestos in or near any of our mines We do do notmill orhandle commercialasbestosin any form 4 Asbestos ia a naturalhydrous hydroums agnesiumsilicate Talc natural |hydrous magne silicate They are vastly different physicallyhomever and t more detail flou will be heating from us soon Very truly yoUIR EJE 000123