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td) BABY PRODUCTS COMPANY | | | eo file THAC -trace metals RARITAN N. J. 08869 January 28 1977 Mr. Arnold H. Netherwood Johnson & Johnson Ltd. Southampton Road Cosham Portsmouth Hants PO6 4RL England Dear Arnold This is my personal and confidential opinion on requests for contaminant levels per your questionnaire on EEC Cosmetic Directive which you circulated corporately as of 12/13/76 I refer only to talc and dusting powders Firstlwye do not have sufficient information to accurately answer the questions because we have never really subjected our finished products to sophisticated analyses for the items in your total list Our detailed trace components in the dusting powder areas has been only on talc as opposed to finished compounded products Two things we know however are that limits for Arsenic should be 3 ppm max and for Lead should be 20 ppm max Those limits reflect back to our raw material spec limits and CTFA and it would be appropriate to expect our finished powder items to conform to those limits It is possible that Berylium might be present but I would expect it to be trace e.g. one part per million or less - Selenium can exist in some talcs and Thallium also possibly in the below 5 ppm range propose a number limit on We have insufficient those elements information - to Chromium can exist in our talc here in the States and it shifts around somewhere from 100 ppm to possibly up to 1000 ppm All other materials in your list would be expected absent but of course we have no documented data on to be that JNJ 000247332 Page Two Mr. Arnold H. Netherwood Johnson & Johnson Ltd. England The can problem inherent in say there is a zero your questions is that no one today amount of any component unless the methodology is detailed with it I hope your groups over there fully comprehend that when they get around to an agree- ment on the entire matter Just to bring the thing into focus a good analyst will get almost zero for a chromium content in talc using an acid leach recipe but might find up to 1000 parts per million with atomic absorption Sincerely yours by CC G. Lee M. B. McTernan W. C. Waggoner Bell W. H. Ashton JNJ 000247333