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FILE NAME: Foseco (FOS) DATE: 1964 Apr DOC#: FOS006 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letters Mt NORTH AMERICAN ASBESTOS CORPORATION m 30AKD Or TRADE BUILOIHG. CHICAGO <, IL!_ PMQC: WABASH 7.1331 . CBLES: HORAMCO. CHICAGO April 7th, 1964 FMors.ecFor,a nIkncS. . -Billon P.O. Box 8728 Cleveland 35, Ohio jigs Dear Mr. Bilton: Following our recent conversation in Cleveland, I passed word on to s& our associates in England of the questions and health problems you had raised in connection with the use of Blue asbestos. ` AI hsbaveestowsorCdobmapcaknyfroLmimDitre.d,RLicohnadrodn,Gaazned, cwhhieof issciaendtiirfeicc toadr voifsoCraptoe the company. I enclose herewith a copy of Dr. G a te 's le tte r, and apparently the information contained in this letter has already been passed to your associates in the U.K. I advised Dr. Gaze that Mr. Jago is currently in England, but whether Dr. Gaze and Mr. Jago will be in touch with one another, as you will note, is not indicated in this letter, Mr. Jago, however, is no doubt in possession of this information_through Foseco Ltd. We shall be in te re s te d in. your com m ents and those of M r. Jago on hinisforremtuatrino,n btuhtatmyeoaun. wthhinilke,weplmeaasye bleet amblee ktnooswupifpltyh.ere is any additional With ail good wishes, Sincerely yours, NORTH AMERICAN ASBESTOS CORPORATION .L" Pr e REC ryor :cb end. P LA IN T IFFS i EXHIBIT FOS016 /* - * '/*. V . THE CAPE ASBESTOS"COMPANY LIMITED - tUjU5 OTHCE }j.j i U6 TAAK STHEZT 1 0 XT5OK V/-J Ttirwor oovo* *oxx narc**K-ax-omrw--x m *t M'o !S5/ 1U1I*1IIIMidC*IIII< *** CM* *aMuIkCm *im I A t %< #. Ur. Cryor, Uorth .'Inerican Asbestos Corporation ( Board of Trade Building, Chicago 4. 3rd April, 1964 Bear Bob, rooco Inc. - Health >r-?-bicr.s LIi 1 sn sorry to hear that you :r: Loir.; troubled by questions relating to health prcblt-t an; Blue Asbestos. V.'e have already had an enquiry iron -'sseco here ar.d I gather iron our Sales people that th:y ("oorso) fill probably use Aaosite anyway in view c_ the lover price of this fibre. 0:: the health side, the situsti-n is by r.o rears straight forwarc rru is confused by .. uuss of seuiscier.tific and speculative theory. file facts cay be surraart sed as follows : i. The nodical -acrid now at' -.:..s to accept that exposure to"asbestos increases the rish of lung cancer. There is no evidence to indicate that there is a greater rish free any particular fora of asbestos. ii. Burirg recent years a Dr. J.C. b'agr.sr clairs to have found Sfprcxinsteiy 100 cases of a distinctly different FD5-00-00(2000; *5i, 0313 *.\ t. - 2- KJ -- 3 " ZT'jor 3rd April, 1964 kind 'or iur.p cancer c.'.Ued 'aesothelions.' arcr. people in ths "orth "est Cape in ~outh .'.Trice, sost of rhor have soae history of exposure to blue Asbestos. iii. 2r. fc^ncr hit been working in Britain for the last twelve nonths end he clniat to hr.vt uncovered, froc the ` rau-orc's loOtr.s hies over a consiaerable < r.uatcr of1years), a..corparnble number of cases of nesotbelior.a here. iv. Cases of jsosothelionc have also been claimed in the United States end Canada associated with exposure to Chrysotile Asbestos. v. Ho far es I sn aware r.o casts of aasotheliona have been definitely associated with fesosita. These then are the fasts and I should add that I have heard absolutely nothing of shin cancer in this connection. The probler. is an c::.ensign of*the old asbestosis hazard and, although v:a v.ro-concerned with the extension into these r.cre abstruse diseases'and anxious to establish ths fxets, there is clc-rly no reason for alar:; v.-hen or.;- consider.': the v-cry stall incidence of this affliction in relation to the enormous number of people who handle asbestos of all kinds. 3t is accepted that precautions sust be taken and 3 suggest that, so far r.s'Foseco are concerned, all that it is necessary to advise then is that precautions should be taken to prevent inhalation of asbestos dust b;,* their operatives. 3 hope that this answers your .ussthan. 3f you would like any ore infornation, please do not hesistate to lex ae knew. Yours sincerely, nO/_.u FOS-00-000(20o j322 S'*" z_y