Document LKYrqYJNnV3rYRogY1wd0Yo9z
FILE NAME Talc TALC
DATE 1976 Mar
DOC TALC058
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo - Call Report between Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Langer
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Memorandum for the record of a Telephone Conversation
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Dr. E. Shapiro
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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
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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