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FILE NAME: Asbestos Cement Pipe and Sheet (ACPS) DATE: 1969 Feb 18 DOC#: ACPS075 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE Sir Ronald Nyholm ,1. .University HniJd.Ing Information Sorvloo ' ' koporti on AHhoHtoa nml HoaJ.th by noli** ;i ./Asbestos nnd Hrud.noaring Ltd. ' This is.subntnntinlly ft reproduction of a lottor sent by T.ll. A .Co.Ltd. to customors two.yours ago. It still' sopms to mo to bo a valid presentation of tho problem, though the following points should bo up-dated - - (a) The Asbostosis Research Council now has thi'eo Codos of Practico, dealing with - . (i) thermal insulation ' (ii) building (ill) shipbuilding (b) Tho reference in tho final paragraph to tho' ' . Asbostosis Research Council working on a comprohon8ivo Code has boon overtaken by tho publication of tho Draft Asbestos Regulations 1968, soon to bocomo law. 2 . University of Loads Safoty Commlttoo Roport on Asbestos in Building Horo tho comments made at the time this document was published by a sub-committoo of the Asbestos Information Committoe, a copy of which I onclose, aro also still valid, .though tho following additional points should bo made - (a). Paragraph k of Leeds Roport It is important to.remomber that tho prosonce of 00-,called Vasbostos bodies" does not imply, the prosonoo of asbostosnssociatod d i s e a s e , ' (b) -Paragraph'-1!' . y;' ; . . Tho,.cas'os/,,of minimal oxposuro "causing disoaso .grow .rrioro 'and rnoro suspoct. ',, 'V'or .'o,xamploi:VDr'.;v;Muriei'::'Newhouso, whpso . , . ^$11965^ 'eusvo^''ia,-.the..- ... ,, ;;;, ' p r ' i n c i o i ^ f such ftcommunity . ;; aito (n vary duaty operation) and threo . . , womon who, ao .ohilrtron," used, to, eliclo, down: .'.' ' tho aldo of an)ftbosto.dump on tholr J ' Vp^./way frondaohool. a,Such eneo e','--though' not occupational',,'wore obviously oxpnsod :'-:to fairly ...substantial. amount* .of .epooidolito. : duat.' : fo) Parngranh 7 ' . . There is no intention on tho part of tho British aabostos industry of using asbestos fibre in this country for road surfacing. Genomi (a) . . ` . . There is no ovidenoo whatever that the incorporation of asbestos in a building . or its service has ever impaired tho health ' of tho occupants, on the contrary, a recent dust survey taken by the -Asbestosis Research Council to be publi&hod in "Tho Annals of Occupational Hygiene" in Juno 1969, makes it clear that such buildings, which include hospitals, educational buildings (including univorsitios), factories, offices shops, canteens, swimming baths and' residential buildings, show in ovry case Investigated a concentration of rospirablo asbestos fibros far below the lovo.1 regarded as "negligible" by the British Occupational Hygiene Society*s sub-commlttoe on Hygiene Standards for Chrysotilo Asbestos Dust. (b) It is, extraordinary that the University of London should take seriously a document so unsclontlfio as that produced by the ' Loodo Unlvorsity Safety Committee. It would, .surely, bo mors sensible for Univorsity authorities', to make suro that their , , ,,`'.contra0tori compliod. with tho Draft Asbestos .'.-iRi^lat,ibn8V;:}vTher.Environmental Control , 'CoRimitteo-'of .`.the;.Asbestosis Research . , Council would bo in a, position to give , practical advice in thi^ respect.