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The Cosmetic, toiletry and Fragrance Association, Inc. 1133 15th STREET, N,W , WASHINGTON. O.C. 20005 202/33 M 770 TELEX 89-2673 . H Mar.,in ii Norm;-T F. Ecfin. Pn.D, MINUTES. TALC. MEETING AT FDA A meeting was held oh March 11th/ 1976 in the Commissioner"a C o n ference .Room, Pood and Drug Administration, 200 O Street, g.w. / 'Washington, D.C., to. disc u s s results of the, CTFA analyses of coded samples selected by FDA and those used by. Dr. Lew,in for his a n alyses. Those in attendance were; ' George Saiidland,- Bristol-Myers Company (Chairman) Henry M..Davis, FDA ' ' George Lee, Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Company Robert Rolle, Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Company John P. Schelz, Johnson & Johnson Bahy Products Company Ronald L. Yates, FDA. ' N o r m a n F. Estrin, CTFA Dr. Estrin opened the meeting by introducing the Chairman of th~ CTFA Talc T a s k Force,- Mr. George. Sand land,-' and by notinn to V i m ~ Davis that C T F A is planning a meeting on Monday, March. 1.3ch to d i s cuss other data collected on talc. " ' " *` Mr.. Sandland, noted the November letter from. Mr.Davr.s and the fact that the analyses by Dr. Rolle have now been completed. Dr. Roily's letter of December 29th, 1175 and the results of"the analyses ware submitted to Mr. Davis and to ethers present. Mr. Davis than c r i tically compared the results with those of FDA and Dr. Lewi.n. S u b stantial agreement was found with FD A analyses. r.f was noted tha method used wa s dev e l o p e d for raw materials and not fihishf-E p r o ducts. -A copy' of the. CTFA method was distributed to those p ras nt Dr. Estrin emphasized the work done oh these old production nrplu is valuable from the methodological point of.view, but is not v a l u able if.one's goal is to ascertain the present quality of cosmetic talcs. During the meeting,. Mr,. Davis noted an, article bv Gordon Everett entitled, -"Analyses for Asbestos in E n v i r o n m e n t a Samples" ( F n v i r m mental He a l t h P e r s p e c t i v e s , Volume 9, 1974, pp. 181-182). " There further- business, the meeting ndiournod ------------ -- . Norman F. 'Estrin, Ph.D. Vice President - Science NFE:jj March 12th, 19 7 6 Attachment