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FILE NAME: Talc (TALC) DATE: 1976 June 21 DOC#: TALC156 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Dr. Ian Steward, McCrone Associates RE Analyzing Talc Samples for Asbestos June 21, 1976 Dr. Ian Stewart McCrone Associates 2820 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 606l6 Dear Ian, This is to confina a conversation I had with Gene Grieger concerning future TEM-SAED analyses of talc for Colgate-Palmolive Company. To save time I asked Gene if our supplier could send a sample directly to your lab which you would not analyze until we had a chance to screen an identical sample in Our laboratory by x-ray diffraction and optical microscopy, if the material were found asbestos-free by us we would telephone you the O.K. to go ahead, if not, we would ask you to discard it. This would save time sinee I am now re-packaging talc for shipment to you after we have analyzed it. By the proposed method we will save the 2 to 3 days required for the sample to travel from Piscataway to Chicago. Gene indicated there are no problems with this arrangement as far as McCrone Associates is concerned. This will be a convenience for us, and I certainly appreciate your willingness to work in this way. Sincerely, JPS:ls ec: G. R. Grieger J. P. Simko CONFIDENTIAL McCrone2-00583