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FILE NAME: Asbestos Cement Pipe and Sheet (ACPS) DATE: EZ DOC#: ACPS0 KhMENT DESCRIPTION: DZZZZZ/ ZZ , :r~ ~~::.1 con UTTER fllON Mr. A. D. N. J~nes. TURNER. BR.OTHERS ASBESTOS COMPANY LTD. , Mr. John Waddell. . JPMcC/EdP Copies: i i ~/JHC GSS/KN/ADNJ/ JFK/SBa CONFIDENTIAL 24th November, 1966 Revision of Asbestos Industry Regulations It would be helpful 'to lmow if there ls any evidence tending to prove or disprove the existence of danger to health from ha.Jldllng, machining, grinding. abrading or packing of your company's finished products. Apart from the analyeia of any dust count surveys whicta have been done in the factory area concerned, I should be interested 1n any medical evidence - e.g. the absence of disablement among men who have been exposed only to these processes. There ls, I think. outside eviidence of at least one case of mesothelioma 1n a man whose only exposure consisted of employment for some months~~ contimtously on trimming or cutting of asbestos-cement &beet&Jbut of course one or two associations of this kind are not convincing bl themselves. Have you records ot men employed for substantlal periods on these processes ouly? U ao, wbat, 1n general terms, do they show? .. You will appreciate that at thls m.ge I am aeeklng cm]J a bnef digest of information not a mass of data. I I . 0 .. . ./ 0 ..... : ......,, -... / 4o . . .- . ....