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<=i to'la ADM-112 Attention of Owens-Illinois INTRA-COMPANY (|) CORRESPONDENCE Oct. 5, 1955 Subject Dear Miltl In 19h3 yon*11 recall aniaal experiments were began at Saranac Laboratory to deternine the health aapeeta of Kaylo daat. Theao contimed for some years, with the Saranac group sending us report* fro* tiine to tine. Just ae they reached their conclusion, Dr. Leroy U. Gardner, Director of the Laboratory, died. With hie unfortunate loss, thing* beeaae very confused in th* v adralnietratlon of Saranac. We had hoped the Kayla result* would eventually be published. We fait this would be the proper procedure for the long run, erven though the esperlnentc did not ahow Kayla to;. be lily-white. Ife^r mewed, to be specific, that kgrlo dost could cause aabeatoads, an unewable lung oondltionf and they showed' the^- duat could reactivate tuberouloais, as tested in by Saranac's tin*-honored particular* strain of IB. On the plus side, they shewed that Kaylo duat eould not ease* ailiooaie. ^ When Dr. Sehepers. the nee Director of the Saranae Laboratory^ waa in town last week (you not hia in Charlie* a offloe), he said thagr had been going through their records and writing up the aaay unfinished project* that had slid after IT. Gardner's death. 8* said we would shortly see a paper on Klgrlo. Tasterday, it appeared* it*s in the Sopteabor A.M.A. Arofalw of Industrial Health, page 3bS, copy of which la attached. It sea** to he an exoaUant write-up, factual in every respect. I mewed it to Ev Shuaan yeatarday. He liked, particularly, tha last paragraph of the aumaBxy* It sew** litally that tha ohrysotilo (asbestos) com ponent of tha corarercial product, rather than the hydrous oalelu* ailioats, was the cause of the de leterious effect* on the tissues of the experlnsntal aniaal*. This man* that Kaylo la no sore hsrnful than the universally uaad heat insulation, asbestos-in feet leas so, ainee Kaylo contain* * very snail percentage of asbestos. Tha nansa "Kaylo" and "Owens-Illinois" appear nowhere in the ar ticle. It* a completely anonymous* PLAINTIFF'S to EXHIBIT PLAINTIFF'S to EXHIBIT 01 50^ 1345 u* ADM-1I2 Owens-Illinois INTRA-COMPANY (|) CORRESPONDENCE Attention of Mr. H. M. Olander Subject 2 Administrative Division General Opfices Toledo 1, Ohio However* there is this one point. The usual procedure is for a re search group to get approval from a sponsor (0-1, In this Instance) be fore publishing technical reports on a product* This was not done *7 Saranao, with the result that the Kaylo management didn't know the work was to be published* The explanation is the administrative difficul ties Saranac has been through for the last six or seven years--change in directors* etc* Personally* we're glad the research has now appeared in the liter ature--in fact in the outstanding journal of its type* either in the D.S* or abroad* We wish that Kaylo management had been given a chance to OK such publication before tbs act was accomplished* But this can't be helped* It's the fault of no one in particular* and we doubt if it makes any difference* r At Bv's suggestion* we're writing for 50 reprints to keep on hand hers* Sincerely yours* INDUSTRIAL DELATIONS DIVISION W.O.Hazard go By - 01 501 1346