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FILE NAME Talc TALC
DATE 1975 Oct 9
DOC TALC471
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to RT Vanderbilt from Assistant
Secretary of Labor RE RTV's Request for Relief from the Asbestos
Standard for their Talcs
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reply standard This is in
request
to your letter letter of September 26
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for relief from the asbestos standard forconcerning your
containing
fibrous tremolite
actinolite and
your
talcs
anthophyllite
My letter of August 6stated
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that fibrous
anthophyllite
minerals such as asbestiform
or non asbestiform
are
scope of theasbestos *standard standard andrrezolite
not within the
of that
containing mineralsminerals
do not aplyapplyapply to ta, ltehereforethaesprboveissitonis prfovisioons r| m
NIOSH is currently
currently
asbestosis other investigation exposed . \ exactmineralmsineraltso which
workers were
studies where
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adversaedverse medicaleffectseffects werefou
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crushing dooccnuortring talesfibprorusior to processing by milling
antophyllite
contain
fibrous orasbestiform
actinolite or other
trenolitetrenoliteor
asbestiformminerals maasybecsetrotsifya toyour customers that tha at the taletale does not conytaoinu :
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Fibrous asbestiform
naturally naturally
asbestiform
minerals such
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