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FILE NAME: RT Vanderbilt (RTV) DATE: 1975 Jan 7 DOC#: RTV022 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: J-M Memo - J-M Has Definitive Info that RTV1 Talc Contains Several Types of Asbestos I cannot help but feel that some additional input from Research is needed here. Several points: . X, The National Paint.and Coating Association is simply a trade organization. It carries- no-legal weight. . We are still bound- by the lav; as described in 05HA documents. It.seems to me that Stender, in his letter of October 97 1974, destroys his own organization. Until this.confusion within QSHA is resolved, we have no choice but to comply with the law as 'written. ' 2. As I read the NP&CA Bulletin No. 20, X get two strong impressions: a. Rather than clarifying if they only add to my coni' -tier .: oxcoi, b. Asbestos is -not really a.- v-.atos, but it can foe anything you want to call it, e.g., "commercial :talc." 3. X.am ^greatiy concerned^w/fir the 'point sraised'-by' A. Fihkbiner at our last-meeting. This has to do specif ically with the- we -are "sitting" on information:which show^quiko conclusively that- R. T ...Vanderbilt *s talc.products contain not only tremolite., but significant amounts, of chrysoti1e'und ahtbophyli;ite as:.MeLl. What might...be J-M* s .legal . responsibility by mthholaxpg such information? Refer to: CRMC-ELS-004702 H R. Keefe ~2~ January 7, 1975 Memo October 9, 1974 V. E. Wolkodoff to R. 8, Lamar Report No. 414-T-33, October 4 , 1974 Memo October 10, 1974 K. L. Jaunarajs to R. S. Lamar M&no October 23, 1974 V. E. Wolkodoff to R. S. Lamar Memo October 11, 1974 R. 5. Lamar to V.'E. Wolkodoff Do'we still-intend to provide DSHA V/ith this informa tion on Vanderbilt's talc products S' .1 also feel that we. should provide this ii\formatipn to R. -T. Vanderbilt. 4 Finally, the real question.is medical-.-in .nature. From information I have from Kotin and Fenner, there is more than ample reason why we shoul d label regardless of what the law might say. And, this could in time have a great deal to do with legal as well as its .moral. obligations. 1 guess what I'am really trying tc.say, Harry, is that the d0 dasidn .to. label Was' right and--'should) riot* be -subject for rbCPhsUderation'i We have to learn to _live with it in a business'sense regardless of how.difficult this appears. R. S. .Lamar kjra attachment cc; P. Kotin - 4N F. J. Solon - 4N E. M. Fenner - 4N A. C. Fxnkbiner - 5VJ P. A. Martinson - 2W H. Kranich - 2W 4 .- W. C. Streib \ File : 259-6.1 T CRMC-BLS-004703