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TIMP1 tV. M E I. du Pont de Nemours 51 Company Wilmington. Delaware i9*8 EMPLOYEE RELATIONS DEPARTMENT HASKCLL LAIOPATOHV rod _ TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL MCOICINC February 2, 1970 C. L. DICKINSON, JR. S. M. HIRSTY P. R. JOHNSON D. B. FORMAN A. F. CHAD7ICK M. F. ACKEN A. B. NASELOW I. F. PEAKE R. W. LUCKENBAUGH D. SANTMYERS J. L. QUINN C. W. MAYNARD A. B. JENNINGS E. GONICK P. D. GRAHAM, JR. J. MITCHELL, JR. C. T. HANDY - CENTRAL RESEARCH - ELASTOMERS - ELASTOMERS - ELASTOMERS - ELECTROCKEMICALS - EXPLOSIVES - FABRICS & FINISHES - FILM -INDUSTRIAL & BIOCHEMICALS - INDUSTRIAL & BIOCHEMICALS - INDUSTRIAL & BIOCHEMICALS - ORGANIC CHEMICALS - PHOTO PRODUCTS - PIGMENTS - PIGMENTS - PLASTICS - TEXTILE FIBERS ASBESTOS DUST INHALATION Attached to this letter is a proposal for a Company-wide Conference to discuss the health effects of inhalation of asbestos and the means of measuring and controlling the hazards. This letter is an invitation to you to attend the conference and to arrange for attendance by all persons in your department who have a need to know about these matters. There are several reasons for arranging this conference at this time. The following quotation illustrates the concern that exists in industrial medical circles:(1) 184 "With the increasing use and indispensability of asbestos minerals, there has come realization of some very real hazards that must be better defined and controlled. Present standards for dust control do not appear adequate to prevent asbestosis over a working lifetime, and many segments of industry aggressively, attacking the problem have already been using more rigorous standards. The DUP0901339 associations between asbestos minerals and malignancies Asbestos as a Hazard to Health. Fact and Speculation. W. C. Cooper. Arch. Environmental Health 15. 285-290 (Sept., 1967). SETTER THINGS POR BETTER LIVING . . . THROUGH CHEMISTRY SC-DP-02830