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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1973 Mar DOC JMA167 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Mining & International Environmental Policy Committee Agenda : Items to Discredit Dr. Selikoff Mining & International March 23 1973 F. J. Solon CC J. B. Jobe ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MARCH 30 1973 ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION COMMITTEE 1. Discredit Dr. Selikoff Dr. Selikoff statement Rebuttal Asbestos in blood beer etc. because it is filtered pack through containing asbestos filter Quote article by Canadian Government giving fiber counts in beer wine soft drinks etc. which states these drinks contain millions of fiber from natural sources Studies on shipyard workers Patterson N.J. etc. x Not one ounce of chrysotile fiber was in these plants or in the products used on shipboard Also Lyon Conference page 6 paragraph 7 Danny Maciborski witness at OSHA Use the Smith brothers from Thetford as our witnesses Parker is 67 George is 80+ They have lived in Thetford all their lives They ate strawberries covered with asbestos dust We could build a real story -- they walked through ~mills when they could not see All past Presidents of Bell Asbestos reputable people of impressive creditability In other words attack every statement of Dr. Selikoff in both a scientific and a good public relations bases = a. 2. Start to tell the chrysotile story and discredit other fibers See Lyon Conference minutes 3. Hire a good political lobbyist to represent us in Washington 4. Establish closer liasion with QAMA and Asbestos Information of England Save on duplication of work 5. Methodology for convincing U.S. population that asbestos properly controlled is absolutely a safe material to use W. L. VanDerbeek