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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1976 Mar DOC TALC058 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo - Call Report between Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Langer he, Memorandum for the record of a Telephone Conversation batreen Dr. E. Shapiro - \ Epidemiology Unit HP7-103 and Dr. A. Langar Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York New York Dr. Langer had just finished speaking with Marion Burros concerning asbestos in tale and wanted to inform me of the information he had ziven Ms. Burres Dr. Langer had examined twenty brands of talcum powder which were purchased shelf These wore admittedly single grab samples for each of these brands ray diffraction scanning analysis was used and the numbers below regissent weight percent Ten of the twenty samples contained asbestos ranging from two to twenty parcent Five contained anthophyllite and tremolita + T 3 contained tremolite T alone and two contained anthophyllite 4 alone The asbestos containing talcum powdera are Cashmere Bouquet Baner & Black Baby Coty Air Rosemary ZBT Saby Fabregi Brut Yardley Invisible Yardley Black English Leather Mannen .. talc 20 15 11 A plus 11 30 82 A quartz 58 % 3.5 2X A 2I Dr. Langer promised over the talephone to send a with some letter confirming the additional details information given Discussing these results Dr. Langer remarked that if these grab samples represent more than a one time occurrence simple ray diffraction analysis should pick up asbestos at least at the five percent level and above I have written Dr. chemists Langer to obtain samples of these tales for our