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FILE NAME: Union Carbide (UC) DATE: 1966 Feb 8 DOC#: UC157 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Internal Union Carbide Letter RE Letter Toxicological Studies Relative to Asbestos Cartine Corporation 270 Park Avenue .' Hew York,, Hew York 10017, \ cbruary (i, ltGC Mr. Peter il. Cheston Union Car bid Limited 0 Grafton Street London, Enflant! - Pear Peter Your suggest ion that wa consider including "OK paper industry*1 conaoenta in out General Sales Meeting is well taken -- and I plan to review the notes with Ian Sayers. .. ' ' .. . 1 ' apropos of your letter on toxicological studios telativi* to .anbeuUifi' .** wo have reviewed the two excerpts you sunt us with Dr, Cart Dcrnclil. lie counsels that the papers "do not Iy any inoaiua present ineon trovertibie proof nor do they profess to do so." Furtherr "Our position should a eraain that in United States experience there has been no increasea incidence of ; lung cancer when the threshold limit has not been exceeded." . From past publications, we have also noted the references to organic contaminants, with the thought that proof of absence of polycyclic aromatics in Union Carbide asbestos might be usefulj We are planning a o m extraction studies and analyses for 3,/benp.o(a)pyrenc.by techniques employed at./..- .South Charleston. Wo will let you know the results, probably in an appropriately written statement by Dr. Dernehl, . The matter of soft papers, facial and other tissuad, has been a xe- ; curring subject with us. Primarily this is a question of skin ncnKiUs ition. While the over-all statements by our Industrial Mudlcina and Toxicology peopla should suffice -- we t o o given thought to "patch teste,; which, , incidentally, cost appreciably to run. It would be meaningless to conduct uch testa with paper containing UCC asbestos, since the other components b the furnish bear on the results. Hence we are considering patch testa using straight asbestos which, of course, would absolve, only our proeuct. The other components (including, as you know, a variety of organic compounds) of specific furnishes would have to be considered by the paper company. ; . involved. We shall let you know pur plans. > id Very truly yours. A.K.Pufahl:dk ccj H. P. Reicharil <s , F. Frangoa ; X. -,F. Gray "(Australia) ,UCC0,15634 A'3 V5