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FILE NAME: Sherwin Williams (SW) DATE: 1972 June 16 DOC#: SW018 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NYT Article - High Levels of Asbestos Found in 3 Paints and 2 Talcums Here ruz-vn-M i i r r o CAniDi i : r-uo41 j '1 *H'`( ' r.-.'x v THE N E W Y OR K TIMES, FRIDA Y, J U N E 16,1972 ' High Levels of Asbestos Found In 3 Paints and 2 Talcums Here By GRACE LICHTENSTEIN Three brands of textured ceil were using the paints. The ing paint and two brands of city's new air-pollution code, talcum powder have been which went into effect Feb. 27, outlaws the spraying of any named by the city's Environ material containing asbestos. mental protection Administra Air Resources Commissioner tion as having heavy asbestos- Fred C. Hart said yesterday fiber levels that might contrib that, as a result the manufac ute to lung cancer years after turers had come forward with a person inhaled their dust. asbestos-free paints. The environment agency's The paints, named at a news concern about asbestos in baby conference at a construction powder surfaced almost a year site On West 147th Street yes ago, when Jerome Kretchmer, terday, are: the Environmental Protection flA-Coustex textured spray Administrator, advised consuni finish, manufactured by Am ers to stop using talcum until sterdam Color Works, the suspicions about Its asbestos Bronx, said to contain 50 per content were cleared up. cent mixed asbestos minerals. At the time, Mr. Kretchmer JTexure, manufactured by1said two brands tested showed Purity Paint Products Corpora from 5 to 25 per cent asbestos tion, Brooklyn, said to contain fibers in them but declined lo 60 to 80 per cent mixed asbes name them until tests on other tos minerals. brands were made. ^Imperial QT texture finish, Other Tests Awaited manufactured by the U.S. Gyp After repeated inquiries front sum Company, said to contain newsmen, the agency released 5 to 10 per cent of one kind of a letter dated June 8 from asbestos. James R. Marshail, director of The talcs are Landers baby public information, to a con powder and Johnson & Johnson sumer naming Landers and baby powder. Johnson & Johnson as the According to a spokesman brands. He said the agency was for the Department of Air Re still awaiting results o f tests on sources, the paints are de livered in powder form, mixed into a liquid, then sprayed on ceiling interiors to finish. Acting onc information from the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 9, the depart ment had several paint samples analyzed by Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai Environ mental Sciences Laboratory, who reported the high asbes tos quantities. The department issued 13 cease-and-desist orders begin other brands, since it suspected that "virtually every talcum powder contains some asbes tos." A spokesman for Johnson & Johnson denied yesterday that the company's baby powder contained asbestos, saying the Food and Drug Administration in the last year had accepted test results from three inde pendent laboratories proving this. He said the E.P.A. knew of these test results. The Lan ders Company could not be reached for comment. ning in May to builders who The Food and Drug Adminis tration is also investigating the possible health hazards o f tal cum containing asbestos. In an interview, Mr. Marshall suggested that plain corn starch was a cheap and acceptable substitute for baby powder. Dr. Selikoff, considered the' leading health authority on as bestos, has long warned of the danger of lung cancer. Asbestos spray is used to fireproof the steel beams of new buildings.- JNJ 000086528