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jam tlaMc ^SaJcel ^cmna/uf tfnc, < f 'OmOtNATOK Of THE SHHAL-WWNO GASKET" >CAMOfM 0*101 MMM*0**t- it** Twxns.sri.rass It, 19*0 Byron Jackson hap Otvlslon Borg Warner Corporation 2300 C. Vaman Avenue Vamon, California 90059 ATTENTION: Engineering Departwant REFERENCE; Asbestos filled spiral wound gaskats tentlwaen: Wa at Flaxltalllc ar* aware of the coocam for asbastoa products ex pressed by various people and groups throughout tha country. It It the objective of this latter to point out Sana facts for you to review and evaluate. The asbastoa that we use Is In the fora of a thin paper which It tightly bound by a rubber binder, thus reducing the hazard of alrborn asbestos particles. Wa have been aonitored by OSHA, who has found our exposure I lei tee to be within the acceptable level of 2 fiber* longer than S alcrons par cc of air. The Congressional Federal Register 29CFR Fart 1910.1001 reads as fol lows: "No danger label Is required where asbestos fiber* have been nodI fled by a bonding agent, coating, binder, or other Material so that during any reasonably forseeabte use, handling, storage, disposal, processing, or transpor tation, no airborne concentration of asbestos fiber In excess of the exposure Halts prescribed." Flaxltalllc eMploys several 30, 35. sod bO year people who aro subjected to yearly chest x-rays and pulnlnary last, with the results to data being all negative. However, It oust be stressed that OSHA and other people do consider asbestos to be a haxxardous Material. Therefore, you oust fora your own opinion and decide if you wish to continue using It In spiral wound gaskets. Hsry truly yours, F. J. Xurdxlel Engineering tonager FJX:rso ossa paa rtAifhP.a so* ise ossa rax^TsxAsrTSJS--PMOwo! w* aims-tint *>*.* asm to* Awonis PtAwr so* srawca lui oanre NAASoa orr. CAur. aois--raoMM n*eAS.n*s -- rws: *>* *m N* umiiiu rownnuserxuenuinA iwatiraweace whhumci iw IOMTUMI1 f -