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FILE NAME: Johnson & Johnson (JAJ) DATE: 1973 June 4 DOC#: JAJ069 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE Talc < .. 503 June 4, 1973 M r, W. A. Ashton Dr. R. A, Fuller - D r. A* Goudie to D r. R. Rolle D r. G- Hlldick-Smlth .. D r. G. Lord . . Dr,- W. Nashod . D r. R. Petterson , D r. Hildick-Sm ltb and 1 m et with out English, cohorts to d isease the- talc program . .' Much of the discussion is outlined In the attached rep o rt. One Im portant point which was covered was that the B ritish T oilet P rep aratio n s . Federation la drafting sp ec ific a tio n sfo rth e analysis of '"asbestos" in tale. Their methods- Involve concentration techniauee. and will therefore be much m ore sen si tive than our propose ; specifications. . Apparently the Italian 00000 talc passes this teat, and of course Vermont talc dees too, for chrysotile, However. T pressed my concern that Vermont talc naay occasionally show tra c e s of trem o lita by this procedure. 1 pointed oat to Bob Dean that there was no specific evidence that traces of tronr,oUte in talc posed any hazard, ra th e r that the evidence Indicated no toxic problem . Bob agreed to review ttia trem otite aspects with T P F, and hopefully w ill be able to . lim it the analytical method to chrysotile; . 1 have asked Dr.- Halle to send samples . of our'V erm ont talc to 'Fred Pooley so that he may check them by the proposed B ritish method. 1 of course pointed oat to Bob that in Che long te rm , our B rattelle study will delineate the toxicological properties of Vermont tale. s'- ' D r. Hildick-Smith, M r. Dean* D r. Slo&n and I visited the BIBRA. We w ere well ' r.re c e iv e d . As of the moment, BIBRA is awaiting sam ples of Italian 00C0C talc to investigate whether euch, when placed in the femaia ra t vagina,' will m igrate into r - . o v a r i a n tis s u e .. They expressed the belief that it will not; ... *, : ; ' . . ` 'V.' ` ' 'V - '?' .. VX'.. '.i - V *. ch Attach !V ,, . Shelley V, , . ' " Protected Document-Subject to Protective Order