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FILE NAME: Owens Illinois (OWILL) DATE: 1955 Oct 5 DOC#: OWILL054 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter RE Animal Studies and Harmfulness of Kaylo Dust /orni A D .M 11I O wens-Illinois IN T R A -CO M PA N Y ( f) CORRESPONDENCE Anention of Subirci Mr< h . K. o isn d e r cc: Dr. c . F, Shook O c t. 5, 15$5 Aj j m i x u t . a TTVi D n u i o C im r a l O rrici T o l id o J , O hio Deer X i l t i il In l ? l 3 # you*21 r e c a ll anlnsl experinfente were begun at Saranac Laboratory to determine the be si th aspects of le y lo dust* The a con tinued for soi* yvers, -with t l* Saranac grouu sending ua reports fro * t i i r to t in e . Ju s t as they reached their conclusion, Dr. Leroy U, Gardner, Dir sc tor o f the Laboratory, died. With his unfortunate lo s s , thirds becane very confused In the adi'ministration of Saranac. We bad hoped the I ^ 'lo re ro lts would eventually be published. We f s l t th is wruld be the proper procedure for the long run, even thou#i the ^xperiaents did not show Is y lo to be l i l y - v h i t e . They-showed, to be ^ > e c ific , thi-1 fcaylo dust could couae aebestosis, an uncarsble lung condition) and they shoved th dust could reactivate tub ercu losis, SB tested In animals by Saranac' s tirr-honored p articu lar stra in of IB . On the plus sid e, they A owed th ft Caylo duat could not osuse s ilio o s is . When Dr. Schepers, the new Director of the Saranac Laboratory, was in town le s t veek (you vet h ia In Charlie*a o ff ic e ) , be said they bed been going Urough their record end writing up the any unfinished projects th a t bad s lid a fte r Dr* Gardner' S death. Be said w would shortly see s paper on K^ylo* yesterday, I t appeared. I t ' e in th* September A.K.A. Archives of In d ustrial Health, page 3L8, eopy of which i s attached. I t seems ic be an excel lent write-up, fa ctu a l in erery respect. I Shoved i t to l v Bhutan yesterday. Be lik e d , p a rtic u la rly , the la s t paragraph o f the suKetryi I t seajss lik e ly that the ehrysptile (asbestos) ooponent of the co ;* r c i a l product, rather than the hydrous ca le lu x s i l i e s t e , was the cause of ths delste rio u s e ffe o ts on the tissues o f the experlasntal s n i a ls . This eans that la y lo i s no *ore harmful than the uni vara a lly used best in su lation , asbestos--in fa c t le ss so, since la ylo contains a very a ll percentage o f asbestos* The narass Xsylo* snd Ow ens-Illinais* appear ncYdvars in tbs ar t i c l e . I t ' s ocarpletely tnon/aous I A ' Form ADM 115 O wens-Illinois . IN T R A -CO M PANY (]) CORRESPONDENCE Attention of K r . K. K. Olander Subirci - 2- ADMrviTn*Tr' t Drvino\ C ik e . al O m e n "To l e d o 1, O h io However, there i s th is one p o in t. The usual procedure i s fo r * re search group tc get approval from a sponsor (O -I, in t h is instance) be fore publishing tech n ical reports on a product. This was not done by Serrjiac, with the re su lt th a t the Kaylo Management d id n 't knov th* wcrk w b tc be publiahed. The explanation i s the s d c in is tr a tir e d i f f i c u l t ie s Saranac has been through fo r the la a t s ix or seven years--change in directors, e tc . P erso n ally , v e 're glad the research has now appeared in the l i t e r ature--in fa c t in the outstanding Journal of it a type, e ith e r in the D .S . or abroad, Ve wish th a t la y lo Management had been given a chance to OK such p ublication before the act vas accomplished. But t h is c a n 't be helped. I t ' s the fa u lt o f no one in p a r tic u la r , and we doubt i f i t nakos any differen ce* < At E v'a su ggestion , we're w riting fo r $0 rep rin ts to keep on hand here. Sincerely yours, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISION V.O.Harerd gc