FILE NAME: Oil Industry and American Petroleum Institute (API) DATE: 1961 Apr 8 DOC#: API046 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Minutes from API Medical Advisory Committee Meeting with Attachments mmitize use > AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE X T FCR PUBLICATION MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 31ST MEETING 9:00 A.

FILE NAME: Dana (DAN) DATE: 1966 DOC#: DAN014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Corporate Members of MFRI CRMC COPY FORM CM o J&.'.r` .

FILE NAME: ICI (ICI) DATE: 1967 Feb 14 DOC#: ICI016 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE ICI Slough - Asbestos Containing Material Kr.

FILE NAME: ICI (ICI) DATE: 1967 Mar-Apr DOC#: ICI034 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo / M r.

FILE NAME Colonial Sugar Refinery CSR DATE 1962 Dec 10 DOC CSR104 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to Dr.

FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1961 DOC JMA218 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Asbestos Bag Packing Machine - Purchase Specification JM Manville Caryl Ranch Denver Colorado 80217 303 978-2000 May 19 1982 Garrick Cole Hill & Barlow Esq 225 Franklin Boston MA 02110 RE Commercial Union vs.

FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1966 June 1 DOC JMA211 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America Fibrous Dust Study INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA MELLON INSTITUTE 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh 15213 June 1 1966 Prospectus for THF An Investigation of Fibrous I study a The Specificity of Asbestos Bodies and b The Biologic Effects of Trace Substances Associated with Chrysotile Asbestos INTRODUCTION Thomson found that about 30 of the people that had died in hospitals in Capetown 500 consecutive autopsies had asbestos bodies in the lungs The same author found a similar prevalence of asbestos bodies among the hospital deaths in Miami Florida Cauna Totten and Gross examined the lungs of 100 selected hospital deaths for which autopsy permission had been obtained and found that 40 of these had asbestos bodies in their lungs Ian Webster recently reported a 47 | prevalence in Johannesburg | There is at present a reasonable doubt that asbestos bodies are specific indicators of the inhalation of asbestos fibers Such bodies have been found in coal miners and talc workers where they have been called asbestos bodies Recently Davis and Collet have demonstrated the intracellular development of asbestos bodies secondary to amorphous material AN ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTHFUL WORKING CONDITIONS INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERIC^ INC 3 that the chrysotile dust that produced lung cancer was significantly different from that which did not have this effect It is possible that this difference is caused by a coating of nickel steel alloy applied to the asbestos dust particles during the continuous hammer milling process used for rendering the dust respirable This method has not been used by previous investigators Nickel has been found capable of producing lung cancer in trace amounts Although asbestos and glass are both silicates the industrial health experience with workers of these two materials has been vastly different No pulmonary disease has been reported in workers exposed to glass dust Nevertheless the dust of filamentous glass has been labeled as highly dangerous in the lay press by association with asbestos is a fact that although the effect of flake glass dust on the lungs of animals has been reported no similar study has been made of the dust of filamentous glass which does not have an associated resin or filler PROPOSAL Phase 1 It is proposed to examine the response of animals lungs to different inorganic fibrous materials of contrasting chemical composition and to characterize the differences and similarities in the response Phase 2 It is proposed to investigate the influence of trace minerals and poly- cyclic hydrocarbons e benzopyrene associated with chrysotile ore or the subsequent processing on the term response of the lung to the dust INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA 5 These materials will be injected intratracheally into hamsters under ether anesthesia Previous experience has demonstrated that asbestos bodies will form in response to chrysotile dust within five months The animals will killed therefore be held for six months and then aa Asbestos bodies will be sought in lung juice as well as in the lung tissues The lungs will be expanded with buffered formalin under a head of 10 cm of water Blocks removed from these lungs will be sectioned at ... after paraffin impregnation These sections will be stained by different methods and photographed sequentially to provide means for studying more completely the tissue reaction to these various materials Search for the called asbestos bodies will be made using routinely stained sections and | sections stained for iron In addition unstained cleared sections will be examined under field conditions for asbestos bodies The latter glow when examined in this manner The difference in tissue reaction between the synthetic chrysotile dust and that which is known to be fibrogenic as well as carcinogenic will point to the contribution to pathogenicity made by one or more of the various trace substances which may be associated with chrysotile asbestos dust as a result of processing The development of asbestos bodies better termed Ferruginous bodies to dusts other than asbestos would point to the specificty of these structures and to the desirability of collecting such asbestos bodies from human lungs in order to subject them to electron analysis Such DRAFT 8-2-66 INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA Cates Filson MELLON INSTITUTE 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 Filson Subject Summary of Needs and Plans for Asbestos Research The purpose of this session of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Management Planning Meeting held in the Hunt Room of the Webster Hall Hotel on July 19 was 1 to help develop a better concept of the asbestos industry's environmental and occupational health research needs and what is being done to meet them and 2 to provide the U.S.

FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1963 Apr 16 DOC OC328 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo - Proposed Medical Program - Ne?

FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1966 July 28 DOC OC384 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE Kaylo Dust - Bath Iron - with Handwritten Notes = FIBERGLAS COMPANY FIFBERGLASIBERGLASFIBERGLAS FIBERGLAS FIBERGLAS FIBERGLAS COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE To from Subject 8 John Vyverberg = New York 28 1966 dictated 7/23/60 A.

FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1969 Sept 8 DOC OC182 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Medical Reports Ce iad ( ( 1 * H.

HWBB-0018815 V=--n Industrial Hygiene Digest I INDUSTRIAL HEALTH NEWS LITERATURE ABSTRACTS MEDICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGICAL LEGAL MAY, 1961 (Vol. 25, No. 5) INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION MELLON INSTITUTE 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13.

FILE NAME Monsanto MON DATE 1964 Apr 17 DOC MON102 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to E.J.

FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1964 May 22 DOC NMA040 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Asbestos Concerns Acquitted by Jury CONCERNS ACQUITTED BY JURY 2002) ASBESTOS Special to ASBESTOS ASBESTOS ASBESTOS CONCERNS ACQUITTED ACQUITTED ACQUITTED JURY NewspaperThse New York Times (1851 - York Special New CONCERNS Times New May pe 44 ASBESTOS CONCERNS CONERS ACQUITTED ACQUITTED CONCERNS ACQUITTED Special Special Special The York Times.

FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1964 Oct 31 DOC NMA027 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Science News Letter - Danger of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Workers VOL. 86, NO. 18 PAGES 973-288 ENS wee ms men mms cms von wer wor ve wae see eggmenes one tvecapmmpmcenepng secrete emt gannesssabgbentbccenpasgr WASHINGT oe WASHINGT WASHINGT oan TVNOLLY AN TOIGS) ; tr and Mightiest Mightiest 279 279 279 | | ; I nc ST Lh } Ly -276 -276 SCIENCE NEWS LETTER for October 31 1964 Doctors Trim 2 Inches Off Flabby Waists German discovered have doctors at the instant discovered an famous Planck Institute workout method that can reduce waistlines in 30 days Called Isometrio Con- tractions one second dally workout can reduce waistline fast 10 simple exercises can put the whole family in shape fast No sweat strain or tiring repe- titions coaches by Acclaimed Internationally athletes Results guaranteed physiologists Free Illustrated ISOMETRICS Information Write WINNING Minute Home Ino Dopt B 87 Centuck Sta- tion Yonkers N.

. 77777. ' 7 Minutes of -ANNUAL MEMBERSHIJ ............ * October 26, 1061 and "-- SUMMARY OF 1961 ACTIVITIES ,,4; . *1v; * ,. _ >'.