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ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCIATION/ NORTH AMERICA Minutes of Board of Directors Mooting May 10, 1973 A mooting of tho Board of Directors was hold pursuant to notice on May 10, 1973.at. 9i30 A.M. at tho Milliams Club, Vow York, Vow York. Tho following Directors wore presenti George Barge J. L. Rainey S. D. Weaver A. B. Alpine (Proxy) Martin Sondocki (Proxy) A. R. Booker Paul Z. Weiner, Bsq. P. J. Solon, Jr. A. V. Pay J. K. Whittaker C. G. Morgan E. C. Bratt Kurt Schwars William Thurber Atlas Asbestos Company Amatex Corporation Cement Asbestos Products Co.' Certain-teen Products Corp. Coagoleum Industries, Inc. Plintkote Company GAP Corporation Johns-Manville Corporation Vational. Gypsum Company Vicolet Industries, Inc. Bortb American Asbestos Corp. a. K. Porter Company, Zno. Sumradur Manufacturing Corp. Onion Carbide Corporation Also present wore Richard Carter, Johns-Manvilla; Frank Blamerein, . Rational Gypsum Company; W. V. Johnson and Patrick Morgan, Onion Carbide Corporation; M. M. twotonic. Executive Secretary, AZA/VAi Katherine Kinselle, AZA/RA; Joseph Burns, Esq., Counsel, Berms, Van Kirk, Greene t Refer; David Mallino, Government Research Company; Mike laser and Cliff Forbes, Cunningham and Walsh. MW. Marsh, the President, presided and Miss Kinselle noted as Secretary and kept the Minutes. The Minutes of the Board of Directors meeting held on February 1S> 1973 were, on motion duly made and seconded, unanimously approved as reproduced and distributed. WMAMCIAL bbpobt Mr. Marsh explained tha AZA/BA financial rsport for ths first four aoaths of ths year. Mr. Swatonic mentioned a sisabls percentage of raeant offlea expenditure* want toward supplies that would last tha ranaindar of tha yaar. On notion duly aada and *acceded, AZA/RA's financial Report, datad May 10, 1973, was unanimously approved. Mr. ray was asked to haad a committee to nomlnata a slate of officers for the AZA for. next yaar. Kaw officers will be elected at tha annual meeting in September. qOVBRMMEHT RR1ATZ0HS a. OSHA 1. XPP-Q8HA Law Suit Mr. Burns reported on tha oral argument held April 4 in Washington on tha IUD-OSHA suit. A written report was also distributed to tha Board. Mr. Burns stated we can expect a much quicker response from the Court if they decide in our favor than if they decide unfavorably. 2. Mew OSHA Advisory Committee Mr. Bwetonic stated that John O'Weill of the OSHA Standards section told he and Mr. Marsh that it is unlikely any progress will be made in the formation of the Advisory Committee until the law suit is settled. 3. Stander Press Briefing David Mailino attandad a raeant Praas Briefing to introduea tha naw OSHA chief# John Stender, to tha praas. Mr. Mallino reported! 1. As of today OSHA has not changed at all under - Standar*a auparviaion. 2. Onion officials ara alraady unhappy with 8tender'a policy decisions. 3. Standar does not have any occupational health experience so we won't be able to gauge his influence on OSHA for the next three or four months at least. 4. The big issue with OSHA will be the 14 carcinogens. OSHA will become .immersed in this for the next six or seven months. 4. OSHA Compliance Manuals Mr. Swetonic stated that there will be five basic manuals He stated that he has drafts for four of the manuals and is waiting for the completion of the fifth# which deals with the medical requirements of the OSHA standards, b. Environmental Protection Agency 1. Compliance 4 Interpretationt Difficulties 4 Questions Mr. Swetonic stated that arrangements were being made for a meeting in Washington with CPA standard setting and compliance officials to review any questions of interpretation or compliance that the industry was having with the new EPA air pollution regulations. A discussion than took place regarding the EPA standards. Nr. George Vogel* President of the National Association of Filter Manufacturers* arranged tha maating. Ha alao attandad along with another representative of the NAFM. With regard to the use of asbestos filters in food and beverage processing* the FDA has taken the position that they will only consider animal ingestion experiments in deciding whether to baa the filters or not. The animal ingestion results so far are entirely favorable. As far as the use of filters in drugs* the FDA has no intention of banning the filters now* but may require the use of after filters. Mr. Marsh brought out that we now have very good contacts with the FDA* something we have never had before. d. Federal Trade Commission 1. Center for Science in the Public Interest Petition on Asbestos Mr. Swetonic reported that the AXA had been contacted by the FTC with regard to a petition filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest recommending the labeling as hazardous of a variety of asbestos products. Mr. Mallino suggested that the AXA make a formal request using the Freedoa of Information Act as a criteria to see the petition. e. Bureau of Mines 1. Talc Symposium Mr. Carter reported on a symposium held recently by the Bureau of Mines on the mining of talc and talc containing tremolite. Dr. Arthur Langur of Mount Sinai reported at the symposium that he is doing a study of the mortality of a small d. AIA/KA Position Booklets Mr. gvstonic stated that ths AXA/NA Position Booklets would bo consisted and raady for distribution in about two to throo wooka. MEDICAL ATTillg a. Klonk-Borrow Study Nr. Solon statod that Johns-Manvills Corporation was contributing $10,000 to further rasaaroh into Williao Cloak's aloetrooptlv theory of careinogsnio activity in asbestos. The Board of Directors approved a grant of IS,000 for tihls study. The Board agreed to an additional assessaont to raise the funds for this grant if necessary. b. Dr. Sslikoff Activities Mr. Solon reported on a recent speech by Dr. Selikoff at Toronto and offered to loan tape recordings of the speech to the aaaber companies for their inforaation. CONCfcPDIHC REMARKS There being no further business to coas before the Board, the aseting was, on aotion duly aads and seconded, adjourned. lathering nn Acting Secretary for the Meeting --'-Ja-. ______ -________________________ ~__ 06. too *\ O 5ov, -'c' SOME COMMENTS ON THE N10SH WOLLASTONITE STUDY 11/16/78 Mv To summarize, since 1952 there have been 145 workers with one or aore years of work experience at the nine or mill. They obtained some Information on 126 (871) of the 145, but only 61 participated In the study in person In 1976 and are In* eluded In the analysis presented (l.e. the analyses were done on 81). Seventy-six of the 8l In the analyses were members of the current work force In 1976. Some Pood Things About the Study - They went after separated employees to gather Information for Inclusion In the study. - While the cohort Is very small, they did gather whatever mortality data they could (only 4 deaths). - They did not look for Just prevalence of symptoms or disease, they also looked to see If whatever positive findings that were there were related to measures of dose (l.e. they looked for dose-response). - They utilized available data and generated some new data to characterize the fiber dimensions and estimate exposures. In fiber years. - They analyzed their findings statistically. - Smoking habits were collected and considered. In short, the study was done using very reasonable procedures, and the data are reasonably qualified. While good things can be said about the study, the conclusions could easily be misinterpreted If the findings are not put In perspective. In other words, this study Is a good example of one that doesn't prove the negative. The numbers are terribly small, which of course the researchers could do nothing about} and great care should be taken In Interpreting nonsignificant statistical findings. By that I mean that the numbers were so small that one could not expect statistical significance unless the exposures were terribly effective In disease production. Perhaps that can best be Illustrated by presenting an unfair comparison (see attached table). Consider the 1968 BOHS study of the Turner Brothers plant which used the Knox cohort of 290. The Knox cohort with 10+ years of exposure, ranging beyond 25 years, reported a prevalence of basal rales of 16 or 5.58. In the ten to 25 years of exposure subcohort of the Knox group, there were a total of 211 employees, six of whom, or 2.88, had 4 -2- basal ralaa. Of tha 81 workers In the current Wollastonlte study with one to 25 years of exposure, there were 5, or 6.21, with crepitations. There were 131 with 15 to 25 years of exposure in the Knox cohort. Of those, five or 3.81 had rales reported. The Wollastonlte worker cohort had 28 workers In the 15 to 25 year exposure category, four of whom or 14.31 were reported to have had crepitations. I don't need to eaphaslte that the comparison was unfair, but I do think It helps to put It In a better perspective. m UNFAIR COMPARISON Cohort Definition BOHS 10+ NIOSH 1-25 BOHS 10-25 BOHS 15-25 NIOSH 15-25 Basal Rales/Crepltatlons No. No. t 290 16 5.5 81 5 6.2 211 6 2.8 131 5 e 28 4 3.8 14.3 0 V- ; p ^ ; 5 S ^ K ; V < S S j : ;