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FILE NAME: Eternit (ETER) DATE: 1980 Mar 5 DOC#: ETER003 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Internal Letter RE Labeling s f - $ 5l\ | *A s I i $ ? K 4\ ETERNIT M. V *. A- ftKHKCR AOMINISTMATIOM RECEIVED 1 0 MiAR ^8Q ***o A*iu.i o.-otN-osj 5th March, 1980. V ^ .VA - 7 MAR 1980 -- Dear Harry, LABELLING.- No doubt you will recall how long it took ill the members of the AIA to agree on J 1. a logo, 2. a suitable text to be placed at the bottom of the label. Members were left a certain liberty, though they were urged not to mention on the label the risk of cancer but only to say that an incorrect use of the product could be harmful to health. Just as an example, let me mention that the label adopted in the USA for cigarettes does not mentions the risk of cancer, though : a. It is universally known that c lung cancer is due to smoking b. the product liability is much anywhere else. From the above you will I vai to see that on her asbestos diseases". This could have as consequence that the EEC would decide either to adopt the label as it is. either to encourage . . . 4 _ __ ____ ___ . a L . I Ol still to be crests I think if only to defend i no criticise her rath ion of this decision. subject. I shall look forward to hearing from you on the , Yours sincerely,/? M.D.S. HARDIE, Esq., Turner t Newell Ltd., 20, St Mary's Parsonage, MANCHESTER M3 2NL. E . van iler REST . c. G*ll*v* * * rccKt.fl a m : N .V .E T iR N IT .W I4 J - B ut 37-1000 PrCan S '.a S f o *t v .t n rifa n t* $. A, ETE PH IT W .T.C.* fW.E.Jce.m.i*', H 2 - B t. 37-1000 B n tc U *