Document 85Ld7zQ2Jr95v5aE1MyL4p8dy

FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1971 Aug 25 DOC TALC422 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article - Asbestos in Talcum FDA to Test with Cover Letter to Desert Minerals from Charles Chrystal Co. EY CTYN.J. Minerals BARCLAY 7-2151-21527-2151-2152 . ADDRESS : : = . 83PARK PLACE NEW YORK 10007 . NANTAHALA NEW YORK YORK YORK August 25 1971 . Desert Minerals - . | 1891 South Coast Highway Laguna Beach California _ oo. V ggooe ly Sik fix | if (aati 3 ups ee i G |G y begete Dear Earl ao 10/1 ATT MR EARL SMITH AUG_ of | jie | Po Vey $ aL please article Enclosed find copy of which appeared in a New York paper recently regardingasbestos in tale which is actually all we know on the subject at the present moment We are still awaiting letter from you advising that none of your talcs ( or at least none of the talcs which we purchase from you contain asbestos and trust you can send us such an affidavit - po _ 000125 . Yours very truly CHARLESB.CHRYSTAL CO | INC CAC - IH ce oe C.A.CHRYSTAL ; Enc DS 7. PRESIDENT outh little outh him over a 9-1-791-1-71 9-1-71 when him talked little . mapnrsoved . anythinlupgoed \ ry purple an TGA Government the Government & Government not proudfor pretty will well being that we lupoed solit af paid do aw aw the We the mattor for TRAO TRAOTRAO or heis than the nono aueNEENRS Asbestos FDA to Test By STEVE LAWRENCE . Federat Food and Drug Administration officials pushed by the city Environ ~ mental Protection Adminis tration have begun the first steps toward an inquiry to determine whether common talcum powders contain un- healthy quantitles of asbes tos fibers . - the Despite this the head of _ the FDA's Foods Bureau Dr. Virgil Wodlicka said We already have Information on most major talcum brands that indicates they pose po health problems EPA Administrator Jerome Education Kretchmer in a June 28 letter to Health Education - and Welfare Secretary Rich- ardson urged . the federal to government make a tho rough analysis of asbestos | e In talcum powder " Brand Names | eee eee Kretchmer's | letter wag prompted by preliminary studies dono for his agency at Mt. Sinal School of Medi- cino on two brand name E powders - We were informed that these two talcuni powder ples bothfibrous contain amounts of fibrous mine- rala kdentified as asbestos the EPA chief wrote If these findings apply to talcum powder generally most of our Infant popula tion is exposed to a major ' risk of asbestos inhalation throughout at least the first two years of life Kretch ' mor's letter added Mt. Sinal's asbestos expert D. Irving Sellkoff has linked breathing asbestos fibers to / high rates of cancer among workers exposed to the mincral fiber dust over long periods of time ~ FDA in response to Kretchmer's letter met Aug. 12 in Washington with of ficials from the city federal government cosmetic com- panies Selikoff and two of his workers to discuss lab oratory methods for detecting asbestos in talcum pow ' der Even if asbestos particles are found in some powder brands federal devise officials | would have to devise some in- dex of how much is too march And this in turn will de pend on an assessment of how much of the product is actually inhaled during nor mal tisage 9.3 Washington During the Washington ~mecthiy a and ' Washington Johnson protucer and Johnson a majoprotucer reportedly of lindy powder reportedly said that babies got no more than totalof six full days ex- posure to the material tinder normal conditions \. EPA Assistant Commis- sioner Harold Romer told the meeting that this estimate | was krossly erroneous Io- mer said the child is exposed to inhalation of the particu- Ja e for many hours a day over a period of two years high The cancer rates in asbestos miners were deteel- ed in men who had worked with the material full time in many cases for 10 to 20 : yeara + 000126