Document ymm9a43w96DaLebYD4QLa4d3E
FILE NAME Manville JMA
DATE 1974 Feb 5 DOC JMA257
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo - Informing Foreign Customers About Asbestos in Talc - Labeling
JM
M anville
Internal Correspondence
To
L. VanDerbeek - 2S
From
Copies Subject
if 1/2 McKinney - 5W
1/2
1/2
R. Goodwin - 5W
F. W. Pundsack - R Solon - 4N W. Wright - 3W
INFORMING FOREIGN CUSTOMERS ABOUT ASBESTOS AND HEALTH
Last November copies of the booklet WHAT EVERY EMPLOYEE
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ASBESTOS were
for distribution to employees
sent to 21 M There has been
plants
no adverse
Union or employee reaction and the employees apparently have taken the book quite seriously particularly the
part relating to the relationship relationship between asbestos and
smoking
We recommend consideration be the booklet to our customers
given to sending particularly our
copies of
overseas
customers together with a recommendation that our customers
distribute the same or a similar booklet to their employees working with asbestos
We should also like to have another meeting with you and
your people to discuss an appropriate label on asbestos
shipped overseas You will note I did not say warning label We should be able to devise a method of labeling which will inform users of the necessity for handling asbestos fiber properly without at the same time unnecessarily frightening the users or having our products classified as
hazardous
I am convinced that at some time in the future it will be
held that we had a legal obligation to inform users accurately of the things they should not do with our products
Alcro
Recently with respect to a Alcro quartz product we recommended
a label reading somewhat as follows
Implantation of length into the
glass
fiber
of
diameter
__
and
in
plural spaces of rats resulted in
tumors There is no evidence that inhalation of the
same or similar fibers is injurious to health
Nevertheless as a precaution do not handle this
product
a manner
which is
or products containing this product in as to create dust Avoid breathing any
created
such dust
We should discuss a similar label for asbestos shipped overseas