Robert T. P. deTreville to Fibrous Dust Study Sponsors on a Draft Public Health Service Document (1969)

A one-page letter of September 10, 1969, from Dr. Robert T. P. deTreville, president of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, to the sponsors of its Fibrous Dust Study: Hugh M. Jackson of Johns-Manville, Dr. Lee B. Grant of PPG Industries and Dr. Joseph L. Goodman of Raybestos-Manhattan. He enclosed a draft "U. S. Public Health Service document," supplied "in confidence to give you advanced notification," before an ad hoc review committee met in Cincinnati on September 16. If the sponsors found "major errors of commission or omission," the Foundation would try to have corrections "introduced by Dr. Paul Gross, a member of the Committee."

What it shows

DeTreville wrote that "it becomes more difficult to make changes later on, of course, so we thought you should see this now," and asked that the draft be kept confidential, as "we have been asked not to allow further reproduction or distribution." The letter shows asbestos and fiber companies being given a government health document in draft, with a path to change it through a committee member tied to the industry's foundation. The enclosed draft is not in the set.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Dr. R.T.P. deTreville letter to IHF Fibrous Dust Study Sponsors, 9/10/69, enclosing the "draft of a U.S. Public Health Service document" for comment. Dr. deTreville states that if after careful screening, the sponsors detect major errors, the IHF will attempt to see that needed corrections are introduced by Dr. Paul Gross, "a member of the Committee."

Related documents

• Robert T. P. deTreville to Joseph L. Goodman on Raybestos-Manhattan's Support of Fibrous Dust Research (1970)
• Sally Carlysle of the Industrial Health Foundation to Fibrous Dust Study Sponsors on the 1970 Annual Report (1971)

About this copy

This is document 637 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002203 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002203.