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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1973 Feb 24 DOC TALC308 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION WA Post Article - Asbestos Hazards Found Widespread with names of all & Employees who received it BC Notes & men received Washington Post story on 1973 US Senate hearing where talc was discussed by Selikoff and Castleman Barry Castleman Comments - & men received Washington Post story on 1973 US Senate hearing where talc was discussed by Selikoff and Castleman ae FROM DESK OF W. H. ASHTON bil hes. Apcantenad cise si ight. Plaintiff Exhibit PL EXH 3414 THE WASHINGTON POST SatuFreb.d19a7y3 ATL . ars ; Asbestos Hazards ee =. ce ATC 1 Found WidespreadWidespread aX a4 ~ By George Lardner Jr. . Washington Post Staff Writer - sate : at If the martinis don't get Mount Sinal you the sugar in your coffe; e various causes Hospital of _ Even many of the hospital's - - mightBoth could easily send medicines have been contami- of asbestos into your nated as a result of the ashes- traces the Senate Subcom- tos in the filters often used by- msiytstteeem on the Environment drug manufacturers Dr. Seli- was told yesterday at a hear koff said He said he quietly notified the Food and Drug substance iinn tinhge hoinghltyhetopexrvaisivceness substance Administration of this in 1968 modern society because we didn't think it - over the media But medical nothing Selikoff the leading Ameri very ^ authority in the field much happened said cans are all contaminated In fact Dr. Selikoff told ^ with asbestos The number of reporter after the hearing as fibers in our bodies may be this week we are still find- small he said but no one ing asbestos in about one third knows just how many may be all the drugs at Mount Si- ingested before cancer sets in nai Hospital roughly the The stuff according to Dr. s FaDmAe opfrfoipcioarltsiownerfeoufnirdstwnhoetni- Selikoff and the witnesses fied five who followed him can be years ago as found almost everywhere in Another witness Barry Cas gin and sugar rice pudding an environmental em and chewing gum children's with the Baltimore sam- balloons and papier mache County Health Department We have yet to see a said asbestos fibers were ple of air in an American found last September in a pres without asbestos in it Dr. liminary analysis of beer from . | Selikoff added Without enact Carling Brewery and gin ment of effective government the Calvert Distillery don't controls he said I both in Baltimore County --. Washing- think we can safely live with . Testifying for the . . asbestos . based Center for Science Its dangers have been most the Public Interest Castle- commonly associated with man said Carling and all other cupational diseases such as as- breweries in the Baltimbr^ bestosis and cancers stemming area had converted their fil- from steady exposure to asbes ters to a cellulose substitute ~~ tos dust Once in the body Dr. Calvert officials on the . Selikoff would said it stays other hand he said teracting with other maintain that it would cost causing agents and multiply of dollars to stop using the hazards Asbestos asbestos at time and ... develop who smoke workers they know of no suitable sub- a lung cancer eight times as of stitutes for clarifying gin ten as other smokers he said Castleman who placed and one of every five asbestos pint of Calvert gin amid other workers dies from it , exhibits on the witness table is The mineral however said later that he assumed also used in several thousand~...other thousand~...ther thousand~...other makers use the same Lan- kind products said Arthur M. of filters mainly to prod- ger an associate of Dr. Seli very clear for cos tr) koff at the Mount metic purposes inadvertently a School of Medicine in New He also told the subcommit_ York City It is that 80 per cent of the of added to many others such as metropolitan water supply liquor and medicines he said Maryland's Harford County is because of its use as a filter carried in asbestos cement ing agent | - pipe Water samples are now SOT me SEMIS mares en eran MLRyn TORT cae LE cetes ee e ete IN NTH TOBAR gre+ rune ceaon | JNJTALC000169325 ri cn fi 4 ; q i . : : i . . : tested to see if any as- ee Sen. 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Tunney being he said ;; is present gin acting bestos ; chairman subcommittee told him with \ ne chairman asked whether his " You Tunney children should stop blowing : powderynod at the sized exhibit |, balloons _ the presence of You can have it the wit- he ness Sole owt insides signify asbestos fibers And should replied it . ore a insidesquit using his shavte al- Selikof - cum powder \ Yes it does mean that Dr. - > Selikoff replied emphasizing : that the ills from asbestos don't show up for 20 to 30 |, ; - 2 Anything that has as- years bestos in it keep it away from . ve ; . your kids - {: _ Langer said his laboratory | 0 2 at Mount Sinai described as one of two in the world capa- |: microparti- ble of analyzing scles in human tissue has found bits of asbestos in the : scles . bodies of more than 100 pa- " tients who died consecutively - nm . as 58 . . oo Ot al a an PO i ca ght gt ot PAE ane Yee | OA, PRDle RN oe ee cement RO a ie ae ice ve : oe By '* JNJTALC000169326 JNJTALC000169326 JNJTALC00169326 JNTALC0169326