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FILE NAME: Ford (FD) DATE: 1970 Oct 20 DOC#: FD103 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo - Asbestos Emissions from Brake Lining Wear ' i-*- 17 -- ;s.z: c 1 ' ' <."Ir - i \ Intra Company TO: B . H. Siiqpson oc: A- E- Anderson . Gratch " E. D. Harande J . V. P o tro ce lli October 20, 1970 009679 S u b je c t: Asbestos Emissions from Brake Lining Wear I Lave attached the following documents re la tin g to asbestos as a h ealth hazard and asbestos as a product of brake lin in g wear. Some of these you have seen before, but I am including them in case they were misplaced. 1. A memorandum in which the to ta l amount o f asbestos worn . from the brake lin in g in the U.S. i s estim ated. 2. A paper by Jeremiah R. Lynch describ in g h is observations * o f the araaunt o f asbestos fib e r appearing in brake lining wear d e b r is . 3. A biM iocraohv o:. th<- c'-rcinogenic e ffe c ts o f asbestos or . asbestos dust. 4. A d r a ft copy o f a soon-to-be-published Report of Accomplishments from our laboratory in which the r e su lts of acme preliminary dust sampling experiments axe presented. We are preparing to carry out ad d itio n al experiments which w ill provide more quantitatively reliable resu lts. . RLT, :e d Attachment Roy L. Gealer Chemical Engineering Department S c ie n tific Research S ta ff produced by ford 8000 0019