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29. If Defendant ever gave any warnings regarding its
asbestos-containing products, please state:
(a) On what date did your company, or your
predecessor(s), issue an order directing a warning to be placed
on your asbestos-containing products, or containers and/or in
sales literature;
(b) On what date was such warning actually first
placed on your asbestos-containing products, containers or sales
literature;
(c) on what date did your asbestos-containing
products accompanied by such warning, first reach the insulation
contractor?
(d) State the exact wording of the first warning.
(e) State the exact size of the warning printed on
your asbestos insulation products, containers and/or in sales
literature;
(f) Did your company, or its predecessor(s),
dictate the exact size of the printed warning?
(g) Why did your company or its predecessor(s)
place such warning on your asbestos-containing products,
containers and/or sales literature?
(h) Did your company or its predecessor(s) place
such warning on your asbestos-containing products, containers
and/or sales literature because your received a directive,
command, suggestions, legal opinion, or any type of communication
(written or otherwise) from any person, firm, corporation,
governmental agency, committee, association, attorney or
institute? If so, from whom and on what date did you receive
such directive, command, suggestion,, legal opinion or other type
of communication.
(i) If the wording of the warning has ever been
changed or altered, state when it was changed, and the exact
change in the wording.
ANSWER TO INTERROGATORY MO. 29: Abex never
manufactured and sold any asbestos-containing building products.
Abex also claims the attorney-client privilege and the attorney
work product doctrine. Subject to and without waiving these
objections, in 1972, at the lat^gt, Abex commenced the placement
of warning labels on packages of its asbestos-containing
automotive friction products. This label read as follows:
Caution Contains Asbestos Fibers
Avoid Creating Dust Breathing Asbestos Dust May Cause Serious
Bodily Harm
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