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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1971 July DOC TALC418 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo to Desert Minerals Inc. with Attached Article from Chemical Week - Asbestos in the Boudoir m. i _ Deserta rien MineralaIna : Tem DATa E July ? emer Ret re v: blera, July Hi wither > os . F i | innecent gooders Ino Tremolite &Anthophyllite Asbestes fibers found inTalo aa" mee, Dear Tem oe tenes eS oy a ete eae co a ey nr er ee t ae Pe ) 2 5 oa : grades Attached is shetarticle taken from the July 14thissue of the Chemical Weak magasino a Would this be found in anyof our If not perhapswehave ; a sellingpeint Asbestos July 17th the boudoir ee As much as 25 asbestos content was found in samples of two leading brands an of talcum powder according to New York City's Environmental Protection| Administrator Jerome Kretchmer . And at the city's request the U.S. Food bat will and Drug Administration do more : ee ore ne testing and analysis startingwith an ex- oo coe on ne te amination of the test data obtained by boo oo tS , ; uO electron microscopy and ray diffrac- ; prey tion under the direction of Dr.Irving of Selikoff at the Mount SinaiSchool of oh Cd a . Medicine Selikoff reports finding 5-25 > concentrations of tremolite and an particles 4 USE REVERSE SIDE thophyllite ashestos fibers in - CHEMICALiL P oo, i Ht STRAUCH CHEMICACHLEMICAL DISDTRBUOS ISTRIBUTORS 1 5 in under micronsin diameter * Kretchmer notes that his agency is a na positi rovide evidence that this level of s penure contributes to disease in later life But he calls FDA to min-- imize all exposures unless theycan be semonstrated conclusively to be harm- lesa It is unlikely that the government will take any immediate action against . talcum powders One city spokesman says ~~ in Asbestos can he screened from tale the a manufacturing process _- Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick : N.J. a leading talcupmowder manufac 000119