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FILE NAME: Ford (FD) DATE: 1977 Nov 14 DOC#: FD024 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Ford Customer RE Asbestos with Attached Bibliography FORD pa.RTS AND SERVICE DIVISION :TO: Z 1 P T . i -t .LATTN. ,7 w -vY iiC ft . / V r ' 'j : - , S <' \ L \ I i / / rt f ' . r T . c -L \ : M TWO-WAY MEMO REFEFENCE NUMBER SUBJECT: I CUSTOMER INC. ? 1 \ i \ l n i L'\'i\s : 1h'-r \Q\t <- "A ' The attached customer letter has been received by the Owner Relations Operations Department. We are forwarding the letter to your activity for assistance in providing an appropriate response. iVi |_1Please provide information indicated which is essential for our resoonoe. Please reply directly tcTthe customer and send a carbon copy to this ofi.c-: f CDFor your reply. Carbon copy to this offic;e not required.______________ _ _ G 0 Other: < E /- At Owner Relations Operations Dept. Room 816 - Parklane Towers West Ext. 322-4337 rOUR INPUT REQUIRED TO ASSIST A FORD PRODUCT OWNER PLEASE PRINT REPLY BELOW The po ssib ility of carciogenic effects and asbestosis due to the R ambient spread of asbestos from automobiles is minute. The reason for th is finding is that the asbestos fn brake and clutch linings E is converted to a non-fiberous material by the high temperature involved in normal vehicle usage. Therefore, the automobile is not sig n ifican t as a source of free asbestos. _____ __________________ Ford has examined the total process of providing asbestos Itnmg_______ ~ P materials on its vehicles. From a medical standpoint, problems from exposure to asbestos may have to.be overcome in the mine, in the making of the linings and in our supplier plants. Free asbestos from vehicle s t usage and brake service is not considered a problem. Mr. E. J . Selikoff is- an internationally recognized authority on this 1 _ Z Y sib je c t and has agreed with these findings. His works are referenced in an SAE paper on the subject. (SAE 730549 - Asbestos Emissions from ct OE uJ a a& t I0? - / ? - ? * ' Division .-J , . .VLocTatisonr + .n, f. 27/ y e * 121 Jul77 - 3- =9- 2. - RECIPIENT - RETURN TO SENDER WITH COPY 003315 PRODUCED BY FORD FAFD0003277 Brake Dynamometer Tests by A. E- ^d ereo n , R. L .G ealer, R. C. McCune and J. U. Sprys). f te o S t No research th a t resulted in sim ilar findings i. Report no. fiSoJSoffl Brake Emissions); . Hie EPA report is summarized in another SAE Paper (SAE 730548 - Brake and Clutch Emissions Generated During Vehicle Operation by M. G. Jacko, R. T. DuCharme and J . H. Somers). . 003316 PRODUCED BY FORD M BIBLIOGRAPHY A rticle 1. Brake Lining Decomposition Products 2. Exposure to Asbestos During Brake * Maintenance 3. Asbestos Emissions from Brake Dynamometer Tests . 4. How Much Asbestos do Vehicles Emit? 5 The Hazards of Asbestos fo r Brake * Mechanics 6. Asbestos Exposure During Brake Lining Maintenance and Repair 7. Asbestos Exposure of Brake Repair ' Workers in the U. S. 8. Airborne Asbestos in the Vicinity of a Freeway 9. Asbestos Content of Dust ^countered In Brake Maintenance and Repair 10 On the U tility of Dark Field Electron Microscopy in Determination of the Degree of Deformation in C hrysotne Asbestos Author ' Jeremiah Lynch National Center fo r Urban and In d u strial Health D.E. Hickish and Kili Knight Medical Services, Fond of B ritain R.L. Gealer, R.C. McCune and J.W. Sprys Ford Motor Company 12/68 1970 May 14-1 1973 6/73 Barry Castleman, Lucille Camarota, Albert F ritsch , Susan Mazzocchi, and Robert Crawley ~ Public Health Reports Arthur Rohl, Arthur Langer, Mary Wolff, Irving Weisman - Mt. Sinai School of Medicine William Lorimer, Arthur Rohl, A lbert M iller, William Nicholson, Irving S elik o ff - Mt. Sinai Journal o f Medicine J . A lste, 0. Watson and J . Bagg U niversity of Melbourne Rohl, Langer, K1imentidis Wolff, and S elik o ff -M t Sinai School of Medicine K. Seshan U. S. Dept of Energy 5/6/75 1976 1976 1976 January 1977 ' October 1977 ' 003317 PRODUCED BY FORD FAFD0003279 _ * 11. 0f A characterization of Chrysotile Asbestos * 1 2 . Automobile Brake Linings May be a ' Health Hazard 13. A Study of Airborne Asbestos Fibers in Connecticut K. Seshan, Glenn Smith American In d u strial Hygiene Association Leonard Bruckman Connecticut Dept of Environmental Protection 14 Description of Brake M aterials, Work P ractices and Exposure Levels During Brake Maintenance ir Asbestos and Health! Present 1 . Situation in the Friction Material Industry 16. Asbestos Cancer, Past and Future Hazard 17 S ta te -o f-th e A rt, Asbestos * Related Diseases of the Lungs and Other Organs 18. M ortality in Canadian Miners and M illers Exposed to Chrysotile 19. Occupational Lung Disease - Agents of Inorganic Origin 2 ` of6Epidemiological*1Data of Fiber Exposed Populations 21. Diseases Associated with Exposure ' to Asbestos Dust William Nicholson ` Environmental Sciences Laboratory Heinz Doussier Asbestos International Association J . C. Gilson Mirgot, Becklake j . C. McDonald J . C. Wagner J . C. Wagner J . C. Wagner . 1977 April 19 7S November 1978 January 1979 July 1979 February 1972 1975 1979 - 1977 1979 1979 003318 PRODUCED BY FORD FAFD0003280