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UAU 1AVUJ MIIIV4 * mw* w-v | from Mr. J. Waddell, dated 6th February 1908 jy . Thank you for your letter of let February and for sending mo the report of the meeting on "Philosophy of Protection Standards" which 1 have read with great interest and am showing to John Knox, Steve Holmes and Or. Lewlnsohn. 1 shall return it to you safely in the not too distant future. 1 am a bit shaken to discover that Dr. Roach apparently thinks that the standards which the B.O.H.S. Committee are recommending are fairly com fortably acceptable to the asbestos industry. In practice I am stare it is going to prove very difficult in many manufacturing operations and also in the insulation industry to get down to any where near 10 fibres per c.c., much less to 5 or 2. The standards in the B.O.H.S. report are, of course, based on our T.B.A. factories, and even we are going to find it extremely difficult and expensive to get below about 7 fibres per c .c. in the card room, although we are already down to about 3 or 4 In the weaving shod. la collaborating in the production of this report wo have, in effect, lent our support to the setting-up of target standards which will be a challenge to everyone and which our customers and competitors in overseas countries will probably consider wildly Utopian and even catastrophic. If, therefore. Dr. Roach goes about giving people like Lloyd-Davles the idea that the B.O.H.S, has been persuaded to give the asbestos industry an easy ride he will be causing a great deal of unnecessary difficulty and confusion. r[